Yurui Liu
2021-01-16 15:45:30 UTC
Hi,
Sorry to bore you with yet another sentence from Frankenstein.
Do you think the following use of "otherwise" is natural by
the standards of current English?
Day dawned; and I directed my steps towards the town. The gates
were open; and I hastened to my father's house. My first thought was
to discover what I knew of the murderer, and cause instant pursuit to
be made. But I paused when I reflected on the story that I had to tell.
A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me
at midnight among the precipices of an inaccessible mountain. I
remembered also the nervous fever with which I had been seized just
at the time that I dated my creation, and which would give an air of
delirium to a tale otherwise so utterly improbable. I well knew that if
any other had communicated such a relation to me, I should have looked upon it as the ravings of insanity.
Sorry to bore you with yet another sentence from Frankenstein.
Do you think the following use of "otherwise" is natural by
the standards of current English?
Day dawned; and I directed my steps towards the town. The gates
were open; and I hastened to my father's house. My first thought was
to discover what I knew of the murderer, and cause instant pursuit to
be made. But I paused when I reflected on the story that I had to tell.
A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me
at midnight among the precipices of an inaccessible mountain. I
remembered also the nervous fever with which I had been seized just
at the time that I dated my creation, and which would give an air of
delirium to a tale otherwise so utterly improbable. I well knew that if
any other had communicated such a relation to me, I should have looked upon it as the ravings of insanity.