#idk if there's a good way of phrasing this using aldrig (never). maybe it's more proper to use inte (not) | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

wildwood-faun · 11 months ago

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Swedish word order is fairly predictable, as in there's a schema you can fit the various sentence elements into and some of them can go in several different places but there's a structure to it. Except if you're one of the trickster words like not, never or sometimes, then you can do whatever the fuck you want and we had to put special boxes in the schema to accommodate for them. Neat!

#was thinking about the sentence 'jag tror aldrig jag varit där' and how it's technically incorrect #because it means 'i never think i've been there' and not the intended 'i don't think i've been there' - or any number of variants #but in speech i think very few people would take issue with it or interpret it wrong #jag tror att jag aldrig har varit där feels like it ought to be more 'correct' but it feels soooo clunky #idk if there's a good way of phrasing this using aldrig (never). maybe it's more proper to use inte (not)#take ALL uses of 'correct' etc to be used with a heaping spoonful of salt ofc. but i am schooled in general linguistics s well as stylistics #so i think it's fun to compare what's de rigueur and what people actually say #linguistics #swedish stuff #also let's not get started on ju. ju lives by its own rules.

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