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Or as my Thai lady would say "tomorrow I go to shop". As I got a better understanding of why she spoke that way, because there weren't those structures in her
by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Or as my Thai lady would say "tomorrow I go to shop".
As I got a better understanding of why she spoke that way, because there weren't those structures in her native language, it made me do a lot of hard thinking about English and left me with a lot of unanswered questions, but tenses are useful. "l will be going to the barbers while I'm in town" – that's compact and informative and I'd like to know how a Thai speaker would render that.
Incidentally redundancy serves a useful purpose of error detection and rectification, just as much in human speech as in RAM.
- wdutch 3y agoI am familiar with a few south east asian languages and none would have any issue expressing "I will be going to the barbers while I'm in town" ... I think even in English if a second language speaker said "I go to barber while I in town", it's still possible to understand. Regarding redundancy, I so think that it's important and other languages have other ways of handling it. I know that Vietnamese for example very often doubles up the verbs for example for "help" it's common to say giúp đỡ together although both these words individually also mean help.
- tanvach 3y agoHmm I think translating that faithfully will need a bit more context. But usually you can just say ตอนที่อยู่ในเมืองจะไปตัดผมด้วย translating to ‘whilst in town (will) go cut hair also’. The ‘จะ / will’ is a universal word that can be added to other verbs to signify ‘future in due course’.