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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5040 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 33 of 63 18 November 2011 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Two men walk into a bar. The third one ducks.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6588 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 34 of 63 18 November 2011 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
C'mon, man. Not only isn't the joke grammar- or punctuation-related, it's already been made twice in this thread! So as not to make this too negative a post, here's trying to bring it back to grammar: A learner with a problem with prepositions walks onto a bar. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5262 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish | Message 35 of 63 18 November 2011 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Engrish speakel warks into a bal.
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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6871 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 37 of 63 18 November 2011 at 9:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I hate it when people word order English understand don't
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| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5262 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish | Message 38 of 63 19 November 2011 at 7:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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The reported speech said that it was going into a bar.
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| crafedog Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5824 days ago 166 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean, Tok Pisin, French | Message 39 of 63 19 November 2011 at 10:04am | IP Logged | |||||
The bar was entered (by the passive).
I thought all agglutinative languages were SOV? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4778 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 40 of 63 19 November 2011 at 10:56am | IP Logged | |||||
Most of them, but not all - I'm pretty sure Finnish is primarily SVO, although SOV constructions are also used, and Esperanto is kinda hard to classify according to word order, since it could vary depending on the speaker's first language. Conversely, there are SOV languages that are not agglutinative - Latin, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit spring to mind. Anyway, the SOV order is not the defining feature of agglutinative languages. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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