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jdmoncada
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 Message 33 of 63
18 November 2011 at 4:51pm | IP Logged 
Two men walk into a bar. The third one ducks.


[Yes, even I'm groaning over this one.]
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 Message 34 of 63
18 November 2011 at 5:46pm | IP Logged 
jdmoncada wrote:
Two men walk into a bar. The third one ducks.

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.
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 Message 35 of 63
18 November 2011 at 7:59pm | IP Logged 
Engrish speakel warks into a bal.
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 Message 37 of 63
18 November 2011 at 9:18pm | IP Logged 
I hate it when people word order English understand don't

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 Message 38 of 63
19 November 2011 at 7:10am | IP Logged 
The reported speech said that it was going into a bar.
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 Message 39 of 63
19 November 2011 at 10:04am | IP Logged 
The bar was entered (by the passive).



vonPeterhof wrote:
crafedog wrote:
An agglutinative language bar into walks.

Don't you mean an SOV language?


I thought all agglutinative languages were SOV?
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 Message 40 of 63
19 November 2011 at 10:56am | IP Logged 
crafedog wrote:
I thought all agglutinative languages were SOV?

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.


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