Sterner signage
Na sentença a seguir, “The borderlands of madness used to have much sterner signage around them than they do now.” uma boa tradução para o português poderia ser:
As fronteiras da loucura costumavam ter uma sinalização muito mais rígida do que hoje em dia?"

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It means that in modern Western life there is a lot of variation in what is acceptable behaviours. In times such as Puritan England, there was a great deal of conformity
so if you behaved differently, it was socially unacceptable so there was a great divide between crazy and sane. Now the streets are full of eccentric charachters. Which one is the crazy one ?

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