Re: Word order

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Jul 9, 2009, 5:06:13 PM7/9/09

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Michelle Moses <michel...@live.com> wrote:

Ah, thank you. So a person who grew up seeking only primal would have difficulty grasping a sentence if the word order changed around.

At first, it would take a little practice. But I think word-order-changes are pretty easy to pick up, for the most part. For example, German inexplicably throws verbs to the end of the sentence to form its perfect tenses, and most new German speakers have no difficulty picking up on that. So only Primal speakers very new to other languages would be thrown by it. Primal is definitely more "regular" in its grammatical structure than most other natural languages.

I'd think passive voice wouldn't be confusing at all to a native Primal speaker, because passive voice works in a similar fashion in Primal. Beginning a sentence with a verb for interrogatives and commands, and helping and linking verbs (am is are was were be being been have has had do does did) would all be a little confusing at first, though. In English you need a verb to make a sentence complete, while in Primal you need a noun instead.