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    1. Russell Roberts‏Verified account @EconTalker Mar 1

      Correlating mask usage by country or state with copied case load without being able to cope with reality that usage varies by person and having no data on incidence of Covid by mask behavior or other confounding variables like age of population is kind of a waste of time...

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Mar 1
      Replying to @EconTalker

      The distance from the beginning of the sentence to the main verb is almost German.

      5:55 AM - 1 Mar 2021
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        2. Russell Roberts‏Verified account @EconTalker Mar 1
          Replying to @paulg

          Hegelian is the word I think you wanted. I kind of did it on purpose. Kind of.

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        3. Alexandre Lebrun‏Verified account @lxbrun Mar 1
          Replying to @EconTalker @paulg

          I'd say Proustian.

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        1. HOT TOWN‏ @hot_town Mar 1
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          Yes. It hard for me to understand the point of his sentence until I got to the end... was

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        1. Trampoline Rocket‏ @TrampolinRocket Mar 1
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          These types of sentences are recognized by Language Log with its Reznor Prize: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002621.html …

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        1. Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps Mar 1
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          You'll enjoy academic Japanese.

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        1. Benjamin Lang‏ @how_constrained Mar 1
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          German here. Can confirm :D

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