<div dir="ltr">Dear Daniel!. Dear Co-Listeners!<div><br></div><div>I like the <span style="font-size:12.8px">SVO-p. I did some "research" and found out that one of my favourite author, Alan Alexander Milne, uses SVOP-p a lot:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"> On Monday, when the sun is hot <br> I wonder to myself a lot: <br> "Now is it true, or is it not," <br> "That what is which and which is what?" </i><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><br></i></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">or</i></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><br></i></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"> Isn't it funny <br> How a bear likes honey? <br> Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! <br> I wonder why he does? </i><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><br></i></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><br></i></div>There are 11 occasions o of of SVO-p in <a href="http://www.lib.ru/MILN/pooh.txt_with-big-pictures.html#3">Winnie The Pooh</a> all together :)<div>And it is interesting that all of them are lost when translated into Estonian :(</div><div><br></div><div>And it makes a lot of sense to translate the "ordinary" questions into the SVO-p.</div><div><br></div><div>Be well!</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#0000ff"> </font><font color="#0b5394"> <b>Arno</b></font><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div> <div><font color="#000099"><b> <img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/17559693/allkiri5.jpg" width="90" height="96"></b></font></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-08 3:09 GMT+02:00 Daniel Mezick via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Greetings to All Who Inquire (the "AWI people"....)<br>
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Questioning questioning is meta-questioning or "questioning qua
questioning." The linguistic dimension of the interrogative tense in
English is interesting to me. <br>
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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."<br>
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SVO-p is consistent with trend following (also known as "wave
riding.") <br>
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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.<br>
<br>
The past is often a convenient dumping ground for blame; the future
is often a convenient place to deposit promises. <br>
<br>
Present-tense expressions (in general) and SVO-p (in particular)
both tend to make indirect communication in English very difficult.<br>
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The statement:<br>
"My people will call your people, and we'll do lunch."<br>
<br>
In SVO-p, it reads like this:<br>
"My people plan to call your people about lunch."<br>
<br>
The question: <br>
"Does anyone have a question?"<br>
<br>
In SVO-p, it reads like this:<br>
"I wonder if anyone has a question."<br>
<br>
Some languages are "tenseless" .....<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenseless_language" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenseless_language</a><br>
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There is controversy about how the Hopi language handles time: some
say it is a tenseless language:<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_time_controversy" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_time_controversy</a><br>
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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.<br>
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The results may surprise you. <br>
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Kind Regards,<br>
Daniel<div><div class="h5"><br>
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