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As a schoolboy I remember being told that the surest way of finding out if any given English proposition made sense or not was to try to translate it into Latin, French, or German.
My attempt to disentangle this “case” forensically was to lead me on what was often a surprising journey of discovery.
I had once assumed that any opposition to Darwin must necessarily be confined to the ranks of such as Biblical fundamentalists.
Literary critic William Empson, in a famous study, described Satan as the de facto hero of the epic in a cosmic revolt against divine repression.
Der Mittwoch war ein schlechter Tag für Radfahrer. Auf den Straßen Berlins wurden sie in gleich vier teils schwere Verkehrsunfälle verwickelt.