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> 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"
by 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.