Re: Circumfixes?

En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

>
> You find a 40-word sentence very long? Hm, I guess I wouldn't. But
> IMHO,
> what makes a sentence difficult isn't usually length but complexity, ie
> whether it's got lots of embedded clauses, relative pronouns etc.
>
Well, I find a sentence with lots of subclauses easier than a same-length
sentence without, though embedded clauses are really a pain, that's true.

>                                                      Andreas
>
> PS Speaking of complex language, I like to believe I write in a rather
> relaxed and casual way, altho' I do recognize my sentences sometimes
> get
> longer than some would like, but my last Swedish paper missed the top
> grade
> because the teacher thought that the language in it was too formal and
> advanced, seeing that the text was according to the instruction supposed
> to
> be written in the form of an article for a youth magazine. I told the
> teacher that was rather harsh on readers of youth magazines. She
> replied,
> fully seriously, that I had to realize most people aren't on my level.
> What
> to you say to something like that??
"Thank you!" :)) Well, once one of my teachers said something like that about me
too. And she didn't mean that as a compliment. Well, I already knew that French
education values more mediocrity than brightness, so I wasn't that surprised.
Well, "mediocrity" is not the right word. "Uniformity"'s better...

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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