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Ep 009 - The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James

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How to Translate a 100-Year-Old English Story to Today English

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I was expecting something a little slimmer than what ended up happening in the language but I think the story itself is really slick it's pretty economic. prep yourself for some in capital E English if you're gonna read some turn of the screw because it is complicated. They just don't ever talk about anything head on and you have to go a lot of what they're meaning when they talkBecause they'll also they'll like clip sentences so they don't have to say anything too terrible, he says.

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