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I am not a native speaker (French) and was taught British English at school. This came with sentences where the order of words was very different from French.
by BrandoElFollito 3y ago
I am not a native speaker (French) and was taught British English at school. This came with sentences where the order of words was very different from French.
We had stuff like "this is the thing you have been looking for", with the sentence ending with "for".
This forced us to parse sentences with great care to understand them and we were usually fine only after the final word. Same with Latin.
This is to say that this title was surprisingly clear to me immediately after the first reading :)
(if a French is reading this - that was in the times when we were looking for Brian who was in the kitchen, and Jenny who was elsewhere but I do not remember where. They also had a cat)
- dgellow 3y ago(Swiss-French here who grew up with French speaking media. IIRC Jenny was in the bathroom)
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoYou are right! https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/Practical/Your-Questions/Why-is-Bryan-in-the-kitchen https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/Practical/Your-Quest...
- JohnFen 3y ago> We had stuff like "this is the thing you have been looking for", with the sentence ending with "for". To misquote Winston Churchill for the joke: "Ending sentences with a preposition is a thing up with which I will not put."