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Grammar pedants - help please.

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Columba
Columba
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(Went back to admire Dvorak's contribution, which I hadn't done more than glance at).
Columba
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"at which I hadn't done more than glance"
Northern Exile
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Word order is everything :-)
Columba
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Not in Latin.

(I think).
Cerrertonia
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Not in Anglo-Saxon, or many modern languages.
Northern Exile
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Oh I don't know. Word order is pretty critical in Russian and many eastern European languages, German too. I can't comment on Latin, but seeing as it's an inflected language I'd have thought that word order might have a bit of a bearing. Someone will be along shortly to put me right I'm sure :-)
Cerrertonia
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Hungarian has fairly free word order, as does Japanese. There's usually a normal way to order things, but changing the order doesn't make a sentence ungrammatical nor change the meaning although it does change the emphasis.

en.wikipedia.org has more than you probably want to know.
Northern Exile
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< changing the order doesn't make a sentence ungrammatical nor change the meaning although it does change the emphasis >

Yes, absolutely :-)
Dvorak
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Changing the order does change the emphasis although doesn't change the meaning nor make a sentence ungrammatical.
Badger
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Mm. In Latin you could write the equivalent of "the order changing, changes the emphasis" or "changing the order, the emphasis changes" without being ungrammatical or altering the meaning from what you wrote, so it's more flexible than English in that respect.

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