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"Victor, a semicolon is not interchangeable with a period."
-Victor Hugo's teacher, probably
At one point my annoyance with Hugo's writing got so bad I calculated from a sample of several pages that over the course of the book, we should expect about 32,000 commas and 5,000 semicolons. A comma approximately every seven words. It's unreadable in some points because the descriptions are just so overwhelmingly monotonous (or as Hugo would say, "The descriptions were monotonous, tiring, exhausting; it ...more
-Victor Hugo's teacher, probably
At one point my annoyance with Hugo's writing got so bad I calculated from a sample of several pages that over the course of the book, we should expect about 32,000 commas and 5,000 semicolons. A comma approximately every seven words. It's unreadable in some points because the descriptions are just so overwhelmingly monotonous (or as Hugo would say, "The descriptions were monotonous, tiring, exhausting; it ...more
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