#you'll just be left staring at a paragraph that has begun to look like an escher staircase and might at any moment manifest eldritch powers | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

neuxue · 1 year ago

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me: *slaps roof of sentence* this bad boy can fit so many subordinate clauses in it!

sentence in question: *collapses at the slightest touch like a fucking jenga tower, adverbs clattering down all over the floor, nouns lying broken and bleeding, impaled on verbs they were never meant to touch,*

#me running onto the scene of my own crimes trying to bandage the wounds with semicolons that are Not up to the task #a day in the life of Lia #language #sometimes you look at a perfectly elegant sentence in another language and go 'yes there is a normal amount of sentence in that sentence'#and you try to do the same in english and english goes 'no there is in fact too much sentence in that sentence'#and the problem with english is that often you still technically CAN do it. you won't run into a brick wall or anything.#you'll just be left staring at a paragraph that has begun to look like an escher staircase and might at any moment manifest eldritch powers

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