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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: False Cognates, Syntax and Interferences — Oh My!

avril 14, 2015 by Dwain Richardson | 4 commentaires sur English Editing in Quebec: False Cognates, Syntax and Interferences — Oh My!

Here are two French excerpts and their translations (emphases and bold prints are mine): Donner la vedette à la nature luxuriante jusqu’à ce point impose le respect. Plus encore, ce lieu intemporel inspire le recueillement propre au dénuement référant à l’art de l’aménagement extérieur japonais.… Récipiendaire du Prix X, le jury a particulièrement remarqué le […]

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James Harbeck

Topics, We Front Them | Linguistics, Frankly

janvier 14, 2014 by James Harbeck | 4 commentaires sur Topics, We Front Them | Linguistics, Frankly

English is normally a subject-verb-object kind of language, but there are some interesting exceptions, especially in casual contexts. Consider examples such as the following: Poodles, we walk them. Labradors, they walk us. Chickens we have; roads, not so much. Not one of the clauses above follows standard English sentence order, and yet we understand them. […]

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