Re: Circumfixes?
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 6, 2001, 20:13 |
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Christophe wrote:
>Well, this is more a matter of style than of language in itself. Believe
>me,
>even French newspapers are difficult to understand, even though French is a
>SVO
>language with adjectives following their nouns. If I see a 40-word
>sentence, I
>will probably have to read it twice or three times before I can understand
>what
>it means. Knowing the verb is usually far from enough :) .
You find a 40-word sentence very long? Hm, I guess I wouldn't. But IMHO,
what makes a sentence difficult isn't usually length but complexity, ie
whether it's got lots of embedded clauses, relative pronouns etc.
Andreas
PS Speaking of complex language, I like to believe I write in a rather
relaxed and casual way, altho' I do recognize my sentences sometimes get
longer than some would like, but my last Swedish paper missed the top grade
because the teacher thought that the language in it was too formal and
advanced, seeing that the text was according to the instruction supposed to
be written in the form of an article for a youth magazine. I told the
teacher that was rather harsh on readers of youth magazines. She replied,
fully seriously, that I had to realize most people aren't on my level. What
to you say to something like that??
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