On Sunday, 20 February 2022 at 11:35:59 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Sunday, 20 February 2022 at 11:04:45 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
I read that the "for" as an equivalent of "because" was indeed
almost extinct but was more or less resurrected by Tolkien as
he used it throughout Lord of the Rings and the
Hobbit.https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/566024/the-meaning-of-word-for-at-the-beginning-of-sentence
Yes, the Tolkienesque way of using "for" at the beginning of a
sentence is rarely used anymore. But it is still sometimes used
in modern writing to join two independent clauses together in a
single sentence, usually for flavor.
The funny thing, as an English as third language learner (I grew
up as French and German bilingual) Tolkienesque for never
registered as something odd. It was only when a colleague, who
happened to be a native english speaker, made a remark in one of
my emails at work that I learnt about it.
