Comments on: Chapter 17 – Page 18

By: maggPi

maggPi — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:37:43 +0000

One might think that the royal family of the wood elves would have better table manners than to gesture with food-laden forks. …Or to speak with a mouth full of food. (!)

By: maggPi

maggPi — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:32:40 +0000

Word nerds; I love you!

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:41:57 +0000

It’s an optional word order. Not the common one, and therefore it sounds more poetic.
In that respect it’s similar to actually splitting the infinitives; “to go boldly” is far more bland than the naughty “to boldly go”.
Markedness theory will set you up.
In danish there’s a childrens’ song the start of which follows a word order pattern that went out of use a thousand years ago (SOV shifted to SVO), it goes like this “I a farm me build will, there shall be garden to”
Now, in English, word order has become more fixed than in Danish, so in English it doesn’t sound so much poetic as plain weird.
This tidbit was a bonus.

By: kagato23

kagato23 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:54:04 +0000

I knew I had to post as soon as I saw that.

By: Kensou

Kensou — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:28:27 +0000

Thanks to the two of you for pointing out and explaining what my mistake was, as opposed to simply pointing that out.