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  • dreadgoat@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    “Cat red” makes Japanese sounds way more vague than it really is, you’re just not bothering to attempt to transliterate the grammar structures because it’s too hard for English speakers to understand without a half-hour lecture.

    It’s “Cat (topic marker) red (basic copula)”, which obviously carries a lot more information than just “cat red” to a person who intuitively understands what those weird grammar markers signify

    Japanese not having articles is just as weird as PIE languages not having things like topic markers.

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        1 year ago

        Not really, topic markers are… uh… and case endings… analytical instead of… wait a minute
        Der Hund ist rot; 犬は赤いです
        Ich esse den Hund; 犬を食べる
        no it can’t be
        Der Knochen des Hundes; 犬の骨
        fuck
        Ich gebe dem Hund einen Knochen; 犬に骨をあげます