Hi,
On 17-11-2011 2:19, Alan J Fletcher wrote:
At 05:02 PM 11/16/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote
By the way, Stremmenos writes in difficult Italian, even for native
speakers.
HE thinks in Greek, which he then translates to Italian. Rossi does
the same thing with Italian/English. I wonder how they manage to get
along!
Yep, many people on this mailing list think in their foreign language
and translate into English, which is a socalled SVO (Subject Verb
Object) language.
However Greek and Italian are both socalled SOV languages, so that could
possibly make things a lot easier for both of them as they both can
remain in the SOV pattern,
while for them to communicate in English they both have to go from SOV
to SVO and vice versa.
See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject-object-verb
Kind regards,
MoB
