Re: bloody confusing word order!
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Originally Posted by Mordan
Фамилия мне твоя ни о чем не говорит......
when I first read this, i was like " WTF!@!# I don't understand!
When we speak such phrases we stress certain words and the phrase has some special tint. (We got it from spoken Russian, where we relate a certain phrase (words order) with our emotions).
let's mark phrasal stress with ' and a chunk with []
[Tвоя] '[фамилия] [ни о чём] [мне] [не говорит]. - normal
[Tвоя] '[фамилия] [мне] [ни о чём] [не говорит]. - normal
'[Фамилия] [мне] '[твоя] [ни о чём] [не говорит]. - stress on "yours"
'[Мне] [твоя] [фамилия] [ни о чём] [не говорит]. - stress on "me"
'[Мне] [фамилия] '[твоя] [ни о чём] [не говорит]. - stress on "me" and "yours"
You can hear such stresses in spoken versions.
And you can use all variants possible with those chunks. Some of them will be a bit awkward, but they can be smoothed with the tone and stress of your voice.
Re: bloody confusing word order!
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Originally Posted by garans
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordan
Фамилия мне твоя ни о чем не говорит......
when I first read this, i was like " WTF!@!# I don't understand!
When we speak such phrases we stress certain words and the phrase has s
'[Фамилия] [мне] '[твоя] [ни о чём] [не говорит]. - stress on "yours"
Это не так,
'[Фамилия] [мне] '[твоя] [ни о чём] [не говорит]. - stress on "ME"
'[Фамилия] [твоя] '[мне] [ни о чём] [не говорит]. - stress on "yours"
Re: bloody confusing word order!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordan
Фамилия мне твоя ни о чем не говорит......
when I first read this, i was like " WTF!@!# I don't understand!
Words order doesn't matter grammatically, but then, depending on the context, you may rearrange words in such a way to stress some of them more. It's like fine tuning.
Фамилия мне твоя ни о чем не говорит -
the word Фамилия is stressed
Ни о чем мне твоя фамилия не говорит
- the accent is on the fact that surname DOESN'T say anything about you
Мне твоя фамилия ни о чём не говорит - stressed is the fact than I MYSELF don't know anything about you
Typically the word order in such sentences help to stress some aspects of the meaning.
I did my best to explain. Hope this will help.