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I love that 17th century word order.

"Tommorow they told us should be acted, or the day after, a new play..."

It's like declaring a bunch of helper variables before getting to the main body of a function.

I wondered if it was partly the effect of stream-of-consciousness writing without access to a backspace key (or even graphite eraser)?

My instinct was that it was more of a "germanic" sentence structure, but I am rusty on these things and there's enough bad amateur linguistics on the internet for me to add to it.

Or maybe we're both right? Could be a co-relation.

English doesn't have a set word order anyway, its just that nobody bothers to determine the rules for it since whatever system we've arrived at is far more arcane than classically "analytic" languages.

The analytic/synthetic divide doesn't make sense anyway, it's just pulling from Kant and a poor reading of him at that.

It’s still modern English :D

to me it’s a hallmark of a writing style that understands itself to be written speech.

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