Darcy James Argue / 05.2.10 / 00:09 AM wrote: >No, it absolutely does. Let me try one last time: > >"Dog bites man." > >"Man bites dog." > >What's the difference? Same three words. Different meaning. What >accounts for the difference? > >Grammar. Grammar controls meaning.
Or may be the grammar style is the point. Japanese and most other Asian languages place verb the last, while subject is often omitted to avoid redundancy, i.e., "I" and "you" are taken from the context. So, in Japanese grammar, above would be: "The man is, by dog, bitten." Notice the articles :-) By the way, this thread is too much reading for me (I usually need to read a couple times to take in when reading English) and I think I am totally lost here. How is this thread relates to Garritan as in Finale? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
