Re:Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language
by ehnto on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:57AM
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Just for your curiosity, my favourite explanation of Japanese sentence structure is that it is an outside in language, where English is inside out. Since Japanese doesn't follow a conrete word order like SVO, it was very helpful to see it that way.
The kids had lunch in the park at 12pm today.
vs
The kids, Today at 12pm in the park had lunch.
The grander more ephemeral concepts go first in Japanese, with some common exceptions (persons tend to go at the start as it does in the example). In English we tend to start with the closest concept and work our way out.
That really helped my understanding and sentence creation.
The kids had lunch in the park at 12pm today.
vs
The kids, Today at 12pm in the park had lunch.
The grander more ephemeral concepts go first in Japanese, with some common exceptions (persons tend to go at the start as it does in the example). In English we tend to start with the closest concept and work our way out.
That really helped my understanding and sentence creation.