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10-14-2010, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by chiuchimu View Post
^ My grammer sucks in both languages!

Actually I remember vaguely about passive speech.
OVS is really rare. I think only a very small handful of languages use it with any frequency. We can't really use it in English as something like "I love him" would come out as "He love I"; so the meaning gets really confused and backwards!
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