[ATM] RE: Best book to learn mirror making

["lou krajci" <loukrajci@comcast.net>]

>From: Woodchuck <djv@bedford.net>

>This style of writing (indirect, passive voice, authoritative-sounding
>statements, assertiveness) is called "written English" or in Texereau's
>case, "written French".  These are two languages that are dead on
>the one hand and I presume dying on the other.  Once such languages
>were used exclusively for scientific or technical printed matter.  There
>still exist "written German" and "written Russian"....

I am wrestling with this a little bit as I read and Translate Maksutov from
Russian to English.  At times I hesitate keeping an entire sentence complete
and un-split...because it's so long and involved.  I prefer to make two
sentences.  I find it easier to read and understand...and hopefully that
will be the case for other English readers.

But I don't want to dilute the clarity of thought...the thoroughness of what
he covered.

Hopefully I can provide a translation that contains the reasoning and facts,
but not in a stuffy-sounding style.  (I must admit when I first started
reading Maksutov - it was very difficult for me.  Long, complex sentences
and complex grammar.  I'm getting more used to it.)

Give me a couple years to finish this project.  (Which may never end...if I
find copies of other things Maksutov wrote...or stuff by Mikhelson...that's
lots more to translate.)

Tom Krajci
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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