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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by fooker on Saturday July 28, 2018 @04:35AM (#17632243)
Please name 10 popular high fantasy novels spanning multi thousand pages in French and Russian.
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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by dorchadas on Saturday July 28, 2018 @09:45AM (#17633138)
So, basically, if they don't have the breadth of literary genres that English does, they're not as good. That's a horrible metric to judge literature and literary value by.
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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by fooker on Saturday July 28, 2018 @01:14PM (#17633998)
I never mentioned anything about 'good' or 'judge'.

My point was about breadth, which is factual to the best of my knowledge.

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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by ddebernardy on Saturday July 28, 2018 @08:14AM (#17632827)
Not the OP, but FWIW Jules Verne was French...
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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by grey-area on Monday July 30, 2018 @04:23AM (#17642911)
QED
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