Re: OT: Composing (jara: My girlfriend is a conlanger!)

Quoting Sarah Marie Parker-Allen <lloannna@...>:

> It strikes me as funny that you say "what you can get away with without
> even
> being sent to Magadan for 20 years."  Here we tend to say that same sort
> of
> thing, but in a minimal way (as in, "without even a slap on the wrist").
>  20
> years in any kind of prison is rather extreme...
We're talking the Soviet Union under Stalin here. 20 years in the GULag wasn't
particularly extreme.

                                                           Andreas

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