Grammar pedants - help please.
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Mar 2020
8:59am, 4 Mar 2020
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Columba
(Went back to admire Dvorak's contribution, which I hadn't done more than glance at).
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Mar 2020
9:00am, 4 Mar 2020
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Columba
"at which I hadn't done more than glance"
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Mar 2020
9:08am, 4 Mar 2020
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Northern Exile
Word order is everything 
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Mar 2020
10:02am, 4 Mar 2020
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Columba
Not in Latin. (I think). |
Mar 2020
10:07am, 4 Mar 2020
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Cerrertonia
Not in Anglo-Saxon, or many modern languages.
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Mar 2020
10:18am, 4 Mar 2020
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Northern Exile
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
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Mar 2020
10:33am, 4 Mar 2020
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Cerrertonia
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. |
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Mar 2020
10:43am, 4 Mar 2020
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Northern Exile
< changing the order doesn't make a sentence ungrammatical nor change the meaning although it does change the emphasis > Yes, absolutely
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Mar 2020
11:08am, 4 Mar 2020
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Dvorak
Changing the order does change the emphasis although doesn't change the meaning nor make a sentence ungrammatical.
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Mar 2020
11:22am, 4 Mar 2020
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Badger
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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