How long or short a sentence can be in
language ?
1. Brief
enough to evince interest or long enough to explain completely?
2. Thoughts,
ideas, emotions, reactions etc when attempted to be expressed or communicated through
any medium the techniques, limitation, pleasantness and so on of the medium may
either modify or mutilate or mellow down or magnify or manipulate them.
3. However to
ensure that this impact of the medium is minimized there are certain rules,
regulations, grammar in suing every medium.
4. In short
emphasize is on the recipient of the communication as basically it is meant for
him/her.
5. In
language two days ago I wrote about the need for elaborate explanations here http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2015/11/elaboration-is-indeed-important.html
. At the same time the impact of brevity and one- liners are immense and
interesting.
6. So there
was a debate about what determines and how to determine the length of a
sentence?
7. I have
always felt that the length of the sentence must be determined by what it wants
to express or communicate- thought, idea, emotion, event etc.
8. However,
it would be better that it is brief enough to evoke interest and long enough to
express with clarity, if not completely what it intends to communicate, semantically
unambiguous and if necessary with certain amount of indulgence in frills of
extra words and expressions.
9. I thought of
doing some reference on longest sentences and came across lots of very
interesting stuff available, thanks to the internet which dispelled my ignorance
which thought that James Joyce's 'Ulysses' which contains 4,391 words was the longest.
10. Here are the links to those unbelievable and extraordinary stuff
.
13. This is interesting claim of longest sentence in English.
Nineteenth Century in one sentence. That’s right, ONE sentence. Apparently,
it is the longest legitimate sentence ever written in a book. It was written by
Cushing Biggs Hassell’s in his thousand-page History of the Church of God,
published in 1886. hat
tip to rickl
16. And this wins
over all the rest
Traditionally,
the longest sentence in English literature has been found in James Joyce's
'Ulysses' which contains 4,391 words. However this was surpassed in 2001 by
Jonathan Coe's book 'The Rotter's Club' which contains a sentence 13,955 words
long. There is also a Polish novel 'Gates
of Paradise' written by Jerzy Andrzejewski, and published in 1960, with about
40,000 word sentence.
Finally, there is
a Czech novel that consists of one long sentence (128 pages long) 'Dancing
Lessons for the Advanced in Age' by Bohumil Hrabal.
18. László Krasznahorkai, Hungarian novelist is
also a contender for long sentences though I have read only some his works in
English.
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