Dear Daniel!. Dear Co-Listeners! I like the SVO-p. I did some "research" and found out that one of my favourite author, Alan Alexander Milne, uses SVOP-p a lot:
* On Monday, when the sun is hot I wonder to myself a lot: "Now is it true, or is it not," "That what is which and which is what?" * *or* * Isn't it funny How a bear likes honey? Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I wonder why he does? * There are 11 occasions o of of SVO-p in Winnie The Pooh <http://www.lib.ru/MILN/pooh.txt_with-big-pictures.html#3> all together :) And it is interesting that all of them are lost when translated into Estonian :( And it makes a lot of sense to translate the "ordinary" questions into the SVO-p. Be well! *Arno* 2016-01-08 3:09 GMT+02:00 Daniel Mezick via OSList < [email protected]>: > Greetings to All Who Inquire (the "AWI people"....) > > Questioning questioning is meta-questioning or "questioning qua > questioning." The linguistic dimension of the interrogative tense in > English is interesting to me. > > SVO-P is a syntax. The SVO-p syntax (subject-verb-object, present tense) > has no interrogative form. So-called "questions" are best phased starting > with "I wonder," for example, "I wonder if anyone cares at all about SVO-p." > > SVO-p is consistent with trend following (also known as "wave riding.") > > Forming expressions in SVO-p helps the listener to quickly identify who is > acting, what the action is, and upon what. SVO-p keeps thoughts in the now > and may help clarify your thinking. > > The past is often a convenient dumping ground for blame; the future is > often a convenient place to deposit promises. > > Present-tense expressions (in general) and SVO-p (in particular) both tend > to make indirect communication in English very difficult. > > The statement: > "My people will call your people, and we'll do lunch." > > In SVO-p, it reads like this: > "My people plan to call your people about lunch." > > The question: > "Does anyone have a question?" > > In SVO-p, it reads like this: > "I wonder if anyone has a question." > > Some languages are "tenseless" ..... > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenseless_language > > There is controversy about how the Hopi language handles time: some say it > is a tenseless language: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_time_controversy > > I hope you give SVO-p a try. You might want to walk around your town, and > talk to people in SVO-p. The results are interesting. > > The results may surprise you. > > Kind Regards, > Daniel > > > > >
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