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| China-Japan-Koreas |
| Chinese demonstrate low-level flying |
| 2007-02-25 |
| PLA Daily 2007-02-25 The fighters doing the loops and rolls at 10,000m over the sea suddenly swooped down in high-speed dive to less than 100m before they skimmed above the sea waves. This is a spectacular scene the reporters saw recently at an exercise staged over the sea by a fighter regiment of the air force of the Nanjing Military Area Command. Nanjing Military District is responsible for Taiwan. In future air battles over the sea, the air fleet on long-range raid mission is easy to be picked up by With this objective in mind, this regiment has intensified the ultra low-altitude flying training since the kick-off of the annual training program this year. So far it has organized confrontational exercises in partnership with radar troops, and also organized emergency ferrying flight, maximum range flight and maximum combat radius flight in strange air spaces in raining and foggy days or other changeable weather conditions. In this way it has effectively boosted the long-range trans-regional mobile operational capability of its troops. |
| Posted by:gromky |
| #3 One of the effects of Chinglish is excessively long sentences. Evidently, in Chinese, this is OK. I had to translate some documents from Chinglish into English recently, and it was hard to know when to break up these long sentences. |
| Posted by: gromky 2007-02-25 21:26 |
| #2 It cites a sentence from one of William Faulkner's novels, Absalom, Absalom! containing 1,287 words. Ugh! I had to read Absalom, Absalom! in high school. Turned me off of Faulkner forever. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-02-25 20:00 |
| #1 Longest sentence ever? Not even close. I was recently attempting to read a Peter Straub novel and both of his first two chapter opening sentences were so long I found myself wondering if he was trying to go for the record himself. However, they're all pikers. According to Wikipedia, The Guinness Book of World Records has an entry for what it claims is the longest sentence in English. It cites a sentence from one of William Faulkner's novels, Absalom, Absalom! containing 1,287 words. Other sources mention a 4,391 word sentence from James Joyce's Ulysses. In 2001 Jonathan Coe surpassed both with a 13,955 word sentence in his novel, The Rotters' Club. |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-02-25 19:54 |