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Sam Byers
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Author of Idiopathy, Perfidious Albion, and Come Join Our Disease
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And here an example of the difference - Alter’s translation set against the Revised English version.
His observation that syntax is too often repackaged “for an audience whose reading experience is assumed to be limited to Time, Newsweek, The New York Times or The Times of London, and the internet” applies to contemporary literature and style much more widely I think.
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Sam Byers
@sambyers.bsky.social
Author of Idiopathy, Perfidious Albion, and Come Join Our Disease
sambyers.co.uk
439 followers234 following310 posts