Thread: Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?
View Single Post
Old 10-12-2010, 05:07 PM   #23637
FlorenceArt
High Priestess
FlorenceArt ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.FlorenceArt ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.FlorenceArt ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.FlorenceArt ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.FlorenceArt ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.FlorenceArt ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.FlorenceArt ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.FlorenceArt ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.FlorenceArt ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.FlorenceArt ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.FlorenceArt ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
FlorenceArt's Avatar
 
Posts: 5,761
Karma: 5042529
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Montreuil sous bois, France
Device: iPad Pro 9.7, iPhone 6 Plus
Quote:
Originally Posted by WT Sharpe View Post
He didn't know what a tribble was, so last night I introduced my 11-year-old grandson to The Trouble With Tribbles.
Is it just me, or is this kind of sentence structure a relatively new fad in English? I mean starting a sentence with a pronoun (he) and only introducing the name afterward (grandson), when logically it should be the other way around. I keep noticing it since I read a cheap romance (free, actually ) where it felt like every second sentence used that structure. It annoyed me, not because of the structure itself but because it was used so often. But lately I also noticed it in a book by China Miéville, and elsewhere.
FlorenceArt is offline   Reply With Quote