oh my god language nerd i am learning turkish and it feels like everything is backwards!!!! AM I CRAZY WHYYYYYYYYYYY??? -alimi *** Dear Alimi, You are not crazy, o emphatic person. You are totally correct. Don’t flip, it’ll be okay. Sentences are made of words. Mind-blowing, I know. But the words don’t come in any […]
The sentence which I consider le dernier cri in disjunctive pronouns – with which I, after three years of a Jesuit high school, made an enemy of my public school English teacher: “I have a new puppy; I was given him for Christmas.” I contended that the “I” was an indirect object, and that hence ‘I’ […]