❋ Conquest, Robert (1978)Įvery old printer knows, what is often said, that English is a grammarless tongue, and that no grammarian ever wrote a sentence worth reading.

Muchnic's strictures on my translation - even though she most equitably displays her disqualifications by giving short renderings of her own which are in turn rhythmless, rhymeless, grammarless, and meaningless. ❋ David (2005)īut it would be a pity if readers with no Russian were to be put off Solzhenitsyn's remarkable Prussian Nights by Ms. ❋ Unknown (2009)īut Cyphers go where no one has gone before - into a grammarless jungle of confused ramblings, English-as-a-fourth-language rants against targets apparently chosen at random. ❋ Unknown (2009)Īlthough the introduction quickly escalates into parody on that score-the 'compressed, grammarless shorthand' can be rendered in any number of completely incompatible ways-the Lost Books keep returning to moments of figurative translation, in which characters change their nature, their shape, or their state of existence. Now, having decrypted the text, the 'translator' discovers that there some fragments in here that clearly don't belong, chronologically speaking (one dates to the Renaissance xv-xvi), and that, to make matters even worse, the 'highly ambiguous' language consists 'in a compressed, grammarless shorthand consisting of sequences of noun/modifier pairs' (xvi), sans 'spacing and punctuation' (xvi).

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