"English is a language built mostly out of two others. Much of it was created out of the language of invaders who came to Britain around 450 ad from Anglia and Saxony (in what we'd now call northern Germany). About 600 years later the French invaded and brought their language with them, too; it was … Continue reading English Split Composition
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Write Until There Is Nothing Wrong With It
"The process of imbuing every sentence with "minimum elegance and euphony," [Amis] says in the clip above (drawn from a longer interview viewable here) involves "saying the sentence, subvocalizing it in your head until there's nothing wrong with it. This means not repeating in the same sentence suffixes and prefix. If you've got a confound, … Continue reading Write Until There Is Nothing Wrong With It
