Re: Italian Particles

>>Why can't the human brain be perfectly capable
>>of
>>thinking object first instead of subject first?
>>
>>        Rain, I like it.  Small step to:  Rain I like.
>>        The door, I closed it.  The T say:  The door I closed.
>
>This is exactly what I'm talking about.  You're fronting the object _when
>it's the topic_.  It's only when this becomes the default, unmarked order,
>so that the object comes first whether or not it's the topic, that it
>begins to sound "unnatural".
How about something like Spanish "Me gusta comer manzanas"?  Where "comer
manzanas" is the subject of the verb _gustar_.

('Me' isn't topic; to make the speaker topic wants "A mí me gusta...")

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