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You're suggesting their arent any other authors who have taken over a decade to write a book? Prousts' In Search of Lost Time took 13 for example.


You are ignoring the part about being a linguist, though. Spending 10 years writing a book is also not quite rare.


tbh I don't think "researches language structure" has much at all of a correlation with "uses language in a pheasant manner".

it happens to with Tolkein. but it's kinda like claiming a compiler optimization specialist is a good video game developer simply because games use compilers.


I've been comparing Iliad translations. Some of best classicists, who best understand Greek and the original text, are lousy poets.


Far too late to edit now, but I got a laugh out of the autocorrect "pheasant" at least


Sylvain Neuvel is also a linguist. But I’m sure this will also be disqualified because he’s in a different genre.




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