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Comment by teruakohatu

Bleak House’s opening paragraph

> … As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.

A completely functional high earning English-speaking software developer might easily find the above sentence hard to parse.

I find old school sitcoms hard to enjoy, probably because I am missing a lot of subtle cultural context. It doesn’t imply my comprehension skills are poor.

parent teruakohatu 1 month ago

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