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Carl Ballard@carlballard.bsky.social |
Maybe apocryphal, but French language novels have more dialogue than English because when they were serialized, writers were paid by the line instead of the word.
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Erika Fawcett
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I’ve also read this is why French words tend to contain a lot of silent letters or generally excess letters. It was a good way of increasing the line count, whereas English writers wanted shorter words so they could fit the most words on each page.
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