Hi Erin,
I'm not Korean, nor Mayan, so I can't help a lot. Just, I guess it's matter
of rules. I think a Korean can perfectly make himself understood screaming
"Help, that f-*#°ng dog is coming to bite me!"
Your example of the Mayans reminds me a typical joke we Italians make about
one of our wonderful dialects: Sardinian Language.
Even when they speak Italian, sometimes they keep the unusual (for us) order
of words their dialect uses. So the question: "Did you understand me?" that
in plain Italian sounds "Mi hai capito?" [literally: Me you-have**
understood?] sometimes becomes in Sardinia "Capito mi hai?" (Understood me
you-have?). That, I assure you, sounds very funny to our ears, even if
there's really nothing wrong. Just, as said, it's matter of agreement on the
rules we have to follow.
Understood me you have? :-)
Ciao,
Marco
** In Italian, diversely than English, the subject is often omitted as we
have diverse verbal forms according to the first/second/third person...
----- Original Message -----
From: "enoonan" <enoonan@kent.edu>
To: "MOQ" <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 6:39 PM
Subject: MD Self awareness and selfless awareness
> MARCO:Also from my own experience I fail to understand why anyone would
think
> that the Chinese language doesn't distinguish between subjects and
objects.
> (as claimed in ZMM) Chinese distinguishes subjects and objects by word
> order, ie "I bite dog" is different from "dog bite I »
> (Diana, 9 dec. 2000 to MF)
>
> ERIN: All grammars distinguish between subject and object but I was
curious
> about the ones where they weren't separated by a verb. The example you are
> giving is a Object-verb- subject but I was asking something about like a
> Korean language Subject-object-verb. There is a divide in your example
but
> there isn't in mine. And of course the Mayan one that blows my mind
> Verb-object-subject.
>
>
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