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Re:How the brain processes German and Arabic by katzenversteher on Friday June 16, 2023 @03:00AM (#36352550)
I'm a native German speaker as well. While I understand this sentence, I think it is bad style in many cases. It's fine for artsy things where the reader is focused but if you have sentences like this in e.g. a report for a project you did or in an email to a colleague at work, it will most likely not be read at all or not understood correctly. What I mean with this: In everyday situations where people are stressed and/or in a hurry they don't take the time to read anything long properly. Also the the longer the sentences become, the harder it is to get the grammar right.

Very often I heard (and applied) the rule for "everyday" communication to keep the sentences short and to split longer ones if possible.

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