At mid-summer sunset in Iceland is very late and last a long time.
The glacial iceberg-filled lake at Jokulsarlon is well know, [...]
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It's been a quite some time since I read The Elements of Style. Thanks so much for the link, and the trip back to my freshman year in college. (Note that it's is a contraction of "it has" and not the possessive form )
The misused "it's" is indeed a possessive since it refers to the photograph's making....But isn't it merely trite to suggest that articles may benefit from being proofread by someone other than their author?
... Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
The Longest Sentence in LiteratureMany people attribute the longest sentence in literature to Victor Hugo. The claim is that a sentence in Les Miserables, 823 words long, earns that title.The source most often given for this, if a source is given, is Timothy Fullerton's Triviata: A Compendium of Useless Information, published in 1975.Unfortunately, Fullerton was in error. At best, it is the longest sentence in French literature, though I can't confirm that.* Traditionally, the longest sentence in English Literature has been said to be a sentence in Ullyses by James Joyce, which clocks in at 4,391 words. Past editions of The Guinness Book of World Records have listed this record.However, Joyce's record has recently been surpassed. Jonathan Coe's The Rotters Club, published in 2001, contains a sentence with 13,955 words. I believe he currently holds the record in "English Literature."However hold on to your seats...There is also, apparently, a Polish novel, Gates of Paradise, with a 40,000 word sentence. I have been unable so far to find absolute confirmation on an author. Bramy Raju, written by Jerzy Andrzejewski, and published in 1960, translates as Gates of Paradise, but it has been described as a novella. And while there is no absolute definition of that term, novellas are usually shorter than 40,000 words.Finally, there is a Czech novel that consists of one long sentence -- Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal. It is this novel that Coe has said inspired his 13,955 word sentence. Hrabal's 'novel sentence' is 128 pages long, though I have been unable to find an exact word count. It most likely takes the award for longest sentence. Even if it doesn't, it dwarfs Hugo's significantly.-- John Newmark - Nov, 2003*Aug 2004 -- I have received an email stating that Sodom et Gomorrhe, Volume 4 of À la Recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust contains a sentence that's 847 words long in the original French. If this is true, Hugo doesn't hold the French literature record.
It doesn't have to be "formal text" to be nicely written, and it doesn't have to quiet someone's "unique voice". It does show that someone spent time on the words and how they go together and I think that's reasonable for a professional site.
Hmmm... tell that to James Joyce, for instance
Thanks all for the typo corrections & grammar suggestions, including the general desire to see nothing short of well proofed publishings. As for the broader discussion on writing rules and style- I’ll have to vigourously compose a very (very) long and flowery treaty on that, and offer it up for the ravashing as a thread itself in order to do justice for the topic, me thinks. 😉😇
to vigourously compose
Oh, for Christ's sake!
