tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post112748603938123152..comments2023-10-30T10:31:52.321+00:00Comments on Infinitives Unsplit: Sociology, Derrida, Bollocks and CurmudgeonryTim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-1127657608396215982005-09-25T15:13:00.000+01:002005-09-25T15:13:00.000+01:00Compare an incident in, um, a book by LM Alcott th...Compare an incident in, um, a book by LM Alcott that wasn't <I>Little Women</I>. The heroine had taken to reading French novels; her papa was remonstrating with her, asking her if she would still be unembarrassed about reading them if they were in English. At which point she realised that they were highly unedifying, and just happened to sound glam in French.<BR/><BR/>In other words, I suspect that the modern French philosophers don't make sense in French either; but I'm mostly going by Philosophers-for-Idiot-Historians type books, so it is just conceivable that some of them are saying something worthwhile which is lost in translation and paraphrase. I doubt it, though.Boecianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09805771184166935639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13562046.post-1127489851533086802005-09-23T16:37:00.000+01:002005-09-23T16:37:00.000+01:00I wonder if there is something about the English l...I wonder if there is something about the English language that makes all of these people sound incredibly silly or if this stuff sounds just as dumb in Slovenian, French, German, etc.?Akakyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00187471562516416268noreply@blogger.com