Tapeworm set
Tapeworm sentence is the joking, but also derogatory term for a very long, nested sentence structure .
The term is known, among other things, in connection with administrative language , which is characterized by long, often nested tapeworm sentences with cumbersome and passive formulations.
Nested and excessively long sentences are also a characteristic of hypotaxe (not to be confused with the hypnosis form hypotaxia ) and the sentence period , in which situations or topics are presented in detail in complex sentence structures.
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Wiktionary: tapeworm sentence - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Extreme example of a tapeworm sentence in a column with 214 words in the NRZ from February 26, 2015: A visit to the hypotaxeur by Stephan Hermsen
- Eduard Engel : German style . 30th, revised and enlarged edition. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna 1922, p. 327–334 ( available online at archive.org [accessed July 9, 2017]. Parts of the book were plagiarized by Ludwig Reiners in 1943 ).