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Dear List,
I'm sure it can be an advantage to write in a foreign language, and there
can be advantages in writing in a foreign language and one could go on about
the advantages of writing in a foreign language. But could I raise an odd
prepositional use by Nabokov himself in Lolita: 'in result of'. That's not
American idiom, is it? UK English would say 'as a result of'. Is there a
shadow of another language there?
Penny.
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I'm sure it can be an advantage to write in a foreign language, and there
can be advantages in writing in a foreign language and one could go on about
the advantages of writing in a foreign language. But could I raise an odd
prepositional use by Nabokov himself in Lolita: 'in result of'. That's not
American idiom, is it? UK English would say 'as a result of'. Is there a
shadow of another language there?
Penny.
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