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| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5507 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes  Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 9 of 11 27 April 2012 at 11:18pm | IP Logged |
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"One way to look at Yoda's syntax is that it shows signs of favoring OSV syntax (Object-
Subject-Verb) as the basic order in the simple clause. In fact one could call it XSV syntax, where the X is whatever complement would appropriately go with the verb, whether it's an object or not." —Pullum, Language Log Yoda's syntax 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4512 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 10 of 11 28 April 2012 at 2:22am | IP Logged |
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Japanese is neither OSV nor SOV, it is just (whatever)V. Subject is being omitted if possible, same goes for everything else, if there's only a slight chance to do so.
Getting used to that kind of "reducing to the bare bones" really helps, especially while speaking casually. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5896 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 11 of 11 28 April 2012 at 6:35pm | IP Logged |
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You've only been studying for a few months? I don't know how much your studying but if it's a normal exposure of about 1-3 hours per day then it's quite normal that you're having the problem you're describing. This was many moons ago, but I had the same trouble with German. I would only hear the tail end of what was said and this lasted for a very long time (a few years) and it was frustrating! I didn't notice, however, that the whole time the sentences were getting longer and more complex. You may be understanding more than you think, especially at such an early stage :)
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