When using gestures, rules of grammar remain S-O-V

Re:When using gestures, rules of grammar remain S-O-V by Scriptor on Friday January 16, 2009 @11:24AM (#436790)

My French is a bit rusty, but here are some examples I can think of right now:

Je le mange - I eat it.

Je tu le donne - I give it to you.

'le' means 'it', and 'tu' means 'you'. So literally, the first example would be "I it eat", and the second would be "I to you it give".

I don't know Spanish very well, but I pulled this off of Google translate:

Yo lo vi - I saw it

I'm assuming 'lo' is 'it', and 'vi' is 'saw'.

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Re:When using gestures, rules of grammar remain S-O-V by maw on Friday January 16, 2009 @05:30PM (#437386)

I'm assuming 'lo' is 'it', and 'vi' is 'saw'.

Duh! Yes, you are of course correct. My excuse for forgetting: familiarity might not always breed contempt, but sometimes it breeds a real lack of observation!

As an aside, archaic (and archaically styled) Spanish is often SVO even with object pronouns. So you'll see things like "díjole" in Quijote.

(It's "te" and not "tu" in French, btw. Tu's only used as a subject.)

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