15-05-2021, 06:23 PM
(15-05-2021, 05:42 PM)tavie wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(15-05-2021, 05:00 PM)geoffreycaveney wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Although non-native speakers of English may not often be able to compose or to easily comprehend English sentences with such complicated and complex syntax, linguistically talented native speakers and writers of English -- such as Edward, 2nd Duke of York, or such as myself -- do have the ability to do so.
I'll say more on the arbitrariness and random chance points later, but this is worth addressing now. I might not be so quick as to call myself "linguistically talented" as you are, but I am a native English speaker. Your sentences do not make sense in modern English. The complexity of the syntax has nothing to do with this.
Tavie, this assertion you make is simply wrong. The sentences do make sense in modern English, and I already explained every detail of every phrase in each line in my previous post above. You conveniently omitted that part of my post and only quoted my summary statement, not the details that explain why I am right and you are wrong.
If you want to claim that my grammatical analysis of the correctness and meaningful sensible content of my modern English translation of the two lines of text is wrong, you will need to quote and reply to the details of my analysis, not simply quote my summary statement omitting all the details and then make a sweeping statement of your own claiming without any evidence or arguments whatsoever that I am wrong.
Geoffrey