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> in English, while you can rearrange constituents up to a point … I would argue that it can often sound slightly archaic This I don’t agree with.† The rest of
by bradrn 5y ago
> in English, while you can rearrange constituents up to a point … I would argue that it can often sound slightly archaic
This I don’t agree with.† The rest of your post, however, I agree with entirely, and how I forgot the examples you mention I’m not entirely sure.
[† see what I did there?]
- Tainnor 5y agoarchaic might have been a bad choice of words, although it probably depends on the exact sentence. I do think it sounds more formal, though, I think I'd be less likely to hear your first sentence in everyday conversation. Then again, I'm not a native speaker of English.
- bradrn 5y agoMy native-speaker intuition tells me the opposite — I’m probably more likely to use such constructions in colloquial speech than in formal written text. My second sentence does seem more formal to me though.