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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not better, it’s more of rules of punctuation and word order and such, in their normalized forms, being more fit for one use or another. At the expense of something.

  Like those enormous sentences in German building up to unload like a cannon volley with one verb in the end. I also hate German capitalization. But it’s impressive how many floors an atom can have, so to say, in one literate German sentence. Perhaps their capitalization is too caused by necessity, I can’t bear trying to read Dutch, the eye has nothing to cling at.

  Or in Russian there’s no strict word or sentence order, but playing with them one can give different flavors to whatever they are saying. Where you should use commas and where dashes (and sometimes semicolons), and where you can skip those and where you can’t, and whether you are giving a different intonation or meaning to your phrase or just making a mistake ; taken together - whether such a thing as “author’s individual punctuation” exists in Russian or not.

  (All people actually writing well in Russian whom I know, BTW, make mistakes all the time by common rules and definitely have their own punctuation. And this is not much of a rebellion, they praise Zhukovsky - he made his own rules, they praise Pushkin - that punk not only made his own rules, he also used lots of Church Slavic not knowing the difference between that and archaic Russian, they praise Mayakovsky - well, that type wouldn’t object to any abuse of formal rules.)

  I mean, I admit I often write in very bad English, but saying “you should proofread your texts” was absolutely useless, that person could just quote the specific place politely.

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