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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5457336, member: 110504"]Your emphasis on grammar being indicated by something as intuitive as mere word order reminds me of conversations with a guy who was Thai (of consistently Chinese descent) on one side, and Ozark hillbilly on the other. (To half of that, I can say, 'Teacher, I Raise My Hand.') He said the same thing, memorably in reference to what he referred to (probably for my benefit) as Cantonese.</p><p>...Except, for an effectively monolingual English speaker, a concept as simple as that --grammar=word order-- can be hard to get one's head around! <i>Even</i> in comparison to (other) Germanic and (other and change) Romance languages.</p><p>One takeaway is that, across the globe, one advantage people who learn English as a second language have is that they grew up with one that made a grain of sense in the first place. I can almost imagine someone (super-)Imposing a measure of rationality on English, in the process of learning it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5457336, member: 110504"]Your emphasis on grammar being indicated by something as intuitive as mere word order reminds me of conversations with a guy who was Thai (of consistently Chinese descent) on one side, and Ozark hillbilly on the other. (To half of that, I can say, 'Teacher, I Raise My Hand.') He said the same thing, memorably in reference to what he referred to (probably for my benefit) as Cantonese. ...Except, for an effectively monolingual English speaker, a concept as simple as that --grammar=word order-- can be hard to get one's head around! [I]Even[/I] in comparison to (other) Germanic and (other and change) Romance languages. One takeaway is that, across the globe, one advantage people who learn English as a second language have is that they grew up with one that made a grain of sense in the first place. I can almost imagine someone (super-)Imposing a measure of rationality on English, in the process of learning it.[/QUOTE]
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