• Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    14 days ago

    Swedes call longer stories on prose “Romaner”, and we call short stories, novellas, novelletes “Noveller”.

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      14 days ago

      I like languages, and am interested in the propagation of them, hence the question. Thanks for that. In English, ‘novella’ has persisted as a term for a shorter story/novel.