<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">While youre all scouring Marquez, the following, from the preface to the King James Bible (1611?) is 253 words!<div>Yorick Wilks<br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>
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text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:ArialMT;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Yet for all that, the learned know that certain worthy
men have been brought to untimely death for none other fault, but for seeking
to reduce their countrymen to good order and discipline; and that in some
Commonwealths it was made a capital crime, once to motion the making of a new
Law for the abrogating of an old, though the same were most pernicious; And
that certain, which would be counted pillars of the State, and patterns of
Virtue and Prudence, could not be brought for a long time to give way to good
Letters and refined speech, but bare themselves as averse from them, as from
rocks or boxes of poison; And fourthly, that he was no babe, but a great clerk,
that gave forth (and in writing to remain to posterity) in passion peradventure,
but yet he gave forth, that he had not seen any profit to come by any Synod, or
meeting of the Clergy, but rather the contrary; And lastly, against
Church-maintenance and allowance, in such sort, as the Ambassadors and
messengers of the great King of Kings should be furnished, it is not unknown
what a fiction or fable (so it is esteemed, and for no better by the reporter
himself, though superstitious) was devised; Namely, that at such a time as the
professors and teachers of Christianity in the Church of Rome, then a true
Church, were liberally endowed, a voice forsooth was heard from heaven, saying:
Now is poison poured down into the Church, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div><div>On 27 Jun 2008, at 15:05, <a href="mailto:radev@umich.edu">radev@umich.edu</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Can you post it or say on which page/chapter it appears? I'd love to<br>show it in class.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--===============0138049306==<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Content-Type: multipart/alternative; <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>boundary="----=_Part_4453_5696032.1214575303158"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">------=_Part_4453_5696032.1214575303158<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Content-Disposition: inline<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I had come across one sentence in the English translation of One Hundred<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that was at least one and a half<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">pages long.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Scott Songlin Piao <<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk">scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Does anyone have the information about the maximum English sentence lengths<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">in the main genres, such as news reports, academic writings, speeches etc,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">ideally with publication references?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">With best regards<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Scott Piao<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">School of Computer Science<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The University of Manchester<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Manchester, UK<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Email: <a href="mailto:scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk">scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Corpora mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">------=_Part_4453_5696032.1214575303158<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Content-Disposition: inline<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I had come across one sentence in the English translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that was at least one and a half pages long.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Scott Songlin Piao <<a href="<a href="mailto:scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk">mailto:scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk</a>"><a href="mailto:scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk">scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk</a></a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Does anyone have the information about the maximum English sentence lengths in the main genres, such as news reports, academic writings, speeches etc, ideally with publication references?<br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">With best regards<br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Scott Piao<br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">School of Computer Science<br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The University of Manchester<br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Manchester, UK<br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Email: <a href="<a href="mailto:scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk">mailto:scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk</a>"><a href="mailto:scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk">scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk</a></a><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Corpora mailing list<br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="<a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">mailto:Corpora@uib.no</a>"><a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</a></a><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="<a href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</a>" target="_blank"><a href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</a></a><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote></div><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">------=_Part_4453_5696032.1214575303158--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--===============0138049306==<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Content-Type: text/plain; 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Radev Associate Professor<br>SI, CSE, Ling U. Michigan, Ann Arbor <br><a href="http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~radev">http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~radev</a> <a href="mailto:radev@umich.edu">radev@umich.edu</a> <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Corpora mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</a><br>http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora<br><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>