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Thank you SO MUCH for this. English isn’t my first language, and many times I’ve come across sentences like this. I’ve even been collecting them whenever I came
by bbx 4y ago
Thank you SO MUCH for this. English isn’t my first language, and many times I’ve come across sentences like this. I’ve even been collecting them whenever I came across them, on Reddit mostly. I’ve always wanted to find out why this type of sentence only occurred in English (to my knowledge). I’ve always thought it was because a lot of words could be interpreted as either nouns, adjectives, verbs or even adverbs, while retaining the same spelling.
Anyway, I’m glad I finally found the term for these sentences. Many thanks.
- em-bee 4y agothe wikipedia page has examples in other languages too. i think the grammar and vocabulary has some influence over the ability to construct such sentences. some sentences only work like that when written (like the german example) and others only when spoken. being non-native speakers has the interesting advantage that often we don't know the default interpretation of a word, because we don't always know which meaning of a word is more common. on the other hand we'll miss some because we are not even aware of the second meaning of some words.