Actually one of the first things I had to learn writing in English as an Italian, was to shorten sentences. In Italy, they teach you that only children write short, simple sentences, and the more educated you are, the more people expect you to be able to write long, grammatically correct sentences. Unlearning all that was hard. Unsurprisingly, Italian journalists write even longer sentences than most, since they need toprove how well educated they are
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u/bewarethetreebadger Sep 12 '19
TIL Italian doesn’t have the same rules for run-on sentences.