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Heads Up: how the structure of sentences makes some languages feel exactly opposite to English http://wp.me/p4fJvX-aSS

oh my god language nerd i am learning turkish and it feels like everything is backwards!!!! AM I CRAZY WHYYYYYYYYYYY???

-alimi

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Dear Alimi,

You are not crazy, o emphatic person. You are totally correct. Don’t flip, it’ll be okay.

Sentences are made of words. Mind-blowing, I know. But the words don’t come in any ol random order. They come in chunks. Think about this sentence for a sec:

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