Decided to reread “Three Men in a Boat” by Jerome K. Jerome. Literally in the second chapter, I stumbled upon a sentence that seemed to me something very long. Here, my programming past kicked in, and without much thought, I dove into my laptop, downloaded the text, wrote a simple Bash+Perl script to find the longest sentence, and it turned out to be the very one I had stopped at. The author really outdid himself (see image). There was a sentence of 226 words!
Curious to see if the translators could not resist and created a single Russian sentence of 226 words. I looked. They couldn’t!
But it’s interesting to compare the translations themselves. Which one do you like more?
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 