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Hahahaahahaa!!

The Romances can have hugely brutal nested sentences as nothing.

Would you dare to read Don Quixote in the original and non-modernized Spanish? I think not.

That book mixed a parody of Medieval Spanish and the pre-Enlightentment era one.

The discovering of America put the Church on a lower-closer to the Earth place and became the roots of modern Humanism.

Don Quixote is a pun on the Dark Ages, myth and religion, compared it to Sancho Panza who is a metaphor of the almost Enlightened humanistic/pragmatic folk who doesn't believe on myths and doesn't have crazy religious-like hallucinations on giants.

Trust me, a lot of grammar from the crazy knight is stilL¡l valid today even if looks outdated.

Heck, it already was outdated, as I said Don Quixote was the old fart pun from the 1600s.

English' grammar is a joke compared to the versatibility of Romances. And, even forther back in time, Latin used similar traits.




> Trust me

No, thank you. I studied Italian and French (old, middle, and modern), Latin, and Ancient Greek, though most of that has vanished from disuse.

I'm not talking about the grammar (which is simply different in English despite a couple centuries of attempts to make it fit into Latin), or the degree of nuance Cervantes or Rabelais can extract from their linguistic milieu. I'm talking about the range of nuance that a educated, contemporary speaker of the language has available to them. It is simply vastly greater in English than in, say, modern French.




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