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Re: Subordinate clauses

From:Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 29, 2003, 10:01
Emaelivpeith Joe Fatula:
>Before translating the above sentence, I think some sort of analysis like >the following might help: > >Tacitus (he (being obsessed with subclauses) regularly wrote sentences of >such extrordinary length and complexity (they would have been better >organized as at least two paragraphs)) is (I believe) therefore one of the >most painful of all Latin authors to translate.
Great minds think alike, eh Joe? :) Or "tikleisha", as they say in Asha'ille. -- AA