Comment by leogao
5 days ago
> Sentences like the opening line of the Declaration of Independence simply do not occur in conversation.
maybe not in your conversations
5 days ago
> Sentences like the opening line of the Declaration of Independence simply do not occur in conversation.
maybe not in your conversations
They probably do occur in the author's conversations, they're just not salient in conversation since who goes listening for sentence breaks in speech, sentences aren't real.