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Re:Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy th... by atmosx on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:20AM (#13874180)
Out of curiosity, can you read Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in Russian too? Does that feel different than reading them in English?
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Re:Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy th... by concerned_user on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @04:59AM (#13874736)
Do sentences last for 1/3 of a page in English version as well? Such as when you get to the end of the sentence you have already forgotten what was at the beginning? If it is like that then English version is similar to Russian.
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Re:Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy th... by cableshaft on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @10:21AM (#13876268)
Yeah, at least the versions in English that I've read had sentences that last at least a third of the page.
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