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I'll add for Chinese that tonality in pronunciation is rather mind-opening in practice. It doesn't have an obvious symbolic attachment, but it does lead to mome
by tel 16y ago
I'll add for Chinese that tonality in pronunciation is rather mind-opening in practice. It doesn't have an obvious symbolic attachment, but it does lead to moments of awe as you realize you're tracking and paying attention to someone's word-by-word tonality in other languages.
I'll also add Chinese's rather powerful "de" statement. It can be possessively and descriptively, but you'll often see whole sentences jammed up before a "de" in order to describe a single noun (or wildly recursive uses of "de"). About half the time I'm at a loss to translate sometime I find that I'm just not using "de" enough.
- vorg 16y ago> I'll also add Chinese's rather powerful "de" statement. It can be possessively and descriptively, but you'll often see whole sentences jammed up before a "de" in order to describe a single noun (or wildly recursive uses of "de") You can achieve the same effect in spoken English by speaking the jammed up portion quicker, and it's sometimes written with hyphens: "a (whole-sentence-jammed-up-before-a-de)-before-it noun."
- tel 16y agoHaha, sort of true. I suppose it's a lot like the Blub Paradox. It's not that you can't do that sort of thing in English, it's just more painful.