Re: Opinions on English
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 17, 2000, 21:24 |
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In a message dated 2000:09:17 10:04:30 AM, acadon@ACADON.COM writes:
>Is word order messy? (Other than the inverted
>questions in "Do..." etc.) Is the word order of
>compound verbs troublesome?
I have always had a hard time with tenses in English and with the opaque
semantics of question words (i.e. Who?, What?, Why?, Where?, How?, etc.)
I tend to say "What person?", "What for?", "What reason(ing)...?" "What
location/place/space, etc.?", "what way/like?", etc.
Perhaps this cause I grew up learning English mainly from my parents who
are ESL-speakers (English-As-2nd Language) and early in childhood I refused
to conform to my American peers' use of language (also I was in culture shock
having moved from London, England to Houston, Texas).
czHANg