A Progressive Breakdown of Time

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Will it be possible for the mankind to track down on the routes of the human terminological development? The efforts could and would have been made, about which Dano has not made any survey. However, in that case, the nominalization might have been a culmination of the human efforts for the linguistic improvement.

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In the bewilderment of her last years, Ursula had had very little free time to attend to the papal education of Jose Arcadio, and the time came for him to get ready to leave for the seminary right away. Meme, his sister, dividing her time between Fernanda's rigidity and Amanta's bitterness, at almost the same moment reached the age set for her to be sent to the nuns' school, where they would make a virtuoso on the clavichord of her. Urusula felt tormented by grave doubts concerning the effectiveness of the methods with which she had molded the spirit of the languid apprentice Supreme Pontiff, but she did not put the blame on the staggering old age or the dark clouds that barely permitted her to make out the shape of things, but on something that she herself could not barely define and that she conceived confusedly as a progressive breakdown of time. "The years nowadays don't pass the way the old ones used to," she would say, feeling that everyday reality was slipping through her hands. (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, p.245) (The Korean version, p.274)

Dano's comments:
The prevarication by equivocation by Korean translators is a vicious habit to be done away with. What is meant by the prevarication by equivocation anyway? It's a thing of ludicrity between things of normalcy. It's a man of lunacy between the crowds of sanity. Figuratively speaking, it's an occasion you see a woman in bikini among the ladies and the gentlemen in suits and dresses.

The bold-typed phrase a progressive breakdown of time is the typical case of nominalization. It is a converted contraction represented in nominal form. A progressive breakdown of time can be rewritten as: Time progressively breaks down. What the original writer meant by the bold-typed phrase of a progressive breakdown of time is elaborated on the one sentence which is immediately followed (the underlined parts by myself).(*Underlining is not available here...)