Quote Originally Posted by adoc
Quote Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
The golden rule is: Say what you want to emphasize as soon as possible. Russians are very lazy and will only listen attentively to the first part of your sentence, so you want to make it is effective as possible.


No, we are just not ordinarily interested in what the other party is saying. So you better shout and try starting with an insult to attract attention.
Well, that sounds logical, but... in the above mentioned article of Masterrussian ("Structure of russian sentences") it says : first, theme, that's to say, what is known and then, rheme, that's to say, the message that "matters". I think that here must be a difference between composed sentences. and simple ones. Постепенно I will see it clearer. The other I saw in the web a doctoral thesis produced in an English University about "The order of words in Russian sentences and its meaning" (!!!!!!).