Re: (chat) Yoda's word order
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 6:00 |
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In a message dated 05/28/2002 06.21.54 AM, faceloran@JUNO.COM writes:
>He seems to use a sentence order of VOS most of the time ("Help you I
>can"). However, he switches to OVS for dependent clauses ("When nine
>hundred years you reach, look as good you will not"). I don't know about
>noun phrases, since he doesn't use many, but they would seem to be normal
>English.
"Normal English"? *giggloctet* Is not that an oxymoron... especially in
light of all the iiregularities of Englishes throughout the world and even on
this list, eh 0_o?
Hanuman Zhang /'hanuma~n dZahN/
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