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Theta9:
--- Quote from: Case on 01 Mar 2020, 09:15 ---The weirdest and best I've read recently is Anne Leckie's Imperial Radch series - fair warning, though: It's not about Razorgurlz, and she uses two very potent 'Verfremdungseffekte'.
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I've read the first two of those (third wasn't out yet) and now it's been so long I'll have to start over.
Wasn't going to mask this but Case did so I'll follow suit:
(click to show/hide)With the narrator only using she/her pronouns for everybody, at first I thought that all the characters encountered so far were actually female. Then when they went to a non-Radsch world she still said "her" about a character that the natives called "him" and I started to understand that the Radsch calls everybody she/her. That was disorienting to me at first; then as I got used to it I just decided I didn't care, which may have been the author's intent.
Theta9:
--- Quote from: Case on 02 Mar 2020, 01:11 ---Omg Kant ... I can't manage more than two pages of the Critique of Pure Reason before going cross-eyed (and very, very cranky ...). Even his interpunctuation and word-order seem odd to me; I could very well be missing something, but I have doubts whether he fully understood how to properly mark the beginning and end of subclauses - or what is and what isn't a subclause to begin with.
TL;DR - I doubt that it's easier for us native speakers. The man was simply a very, very bad writer (and German provides bad writers with a lot of tools to use badly).
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Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable.
TheEvilDog:
Been listening to the Siberian Incident by Greig Beck, something of a cross between The Thing From Another World style horror and a Russian Mafia story.
It's.....a book. Honestly, its two genres that shouldn't really mix. Its like making a sandwich and using chocolate and tuna as a filling.
Still going to finish it though.
cybersmurf:
A Nutella tuna sandwich? A... Tunella? I'll show myself out.
With my mind working some weird angles at times, I kinda like things that shouldn't work but actually do.
Tova:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 03 Mar 2020, 08:49 ---With my mind working some weird angles at times, I kinda like things that shouldn't work but actually do.
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You should become a software engineer.
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