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2007-02-25 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by gromky 2007-02-25 17:01|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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">FOTSGreg 2007-02-25 19:54|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-02-25 19:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-02-25 20:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-02-25 21:26|| Front Page Top

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