In Reply to: Re: Man, you sound just like Pushkin! posted by Bambi B on September 26, 2003 at 17:49:22:
You are right that the sentence building rules are basically non-existent in Russian, but that simply means that you can build many different constuctions where English would only allow one, and each one would have different flavor.You can take a simple 3 or 4 word sentence and move those few words into all possible configurations, and each one will have its appropriate use - with some overlap, of course, but still, many more verieties than in English or German.
All languages have something unique about them, but even more importantly, people think differently in different languages - making good translation of stream of thoughts so much more challenging.
Maybe we all should become cats with their nine lives...
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