Language Log » "Context is everything" again

« previous post | next post » The most recent xkcd: Phil Resnik, who's apparently forgotten his LL password again, writes: Does a language with pre-nominal relative clauses (e.g. Chinese) have a way of achieving a similar effect? Is English particularly well designed for taking a seemingly completed proposition and then drastically changing its meaning? Oh, wow, I can imagine a really fun Whorfia

[nakagawanatuko]

関係節がオチに来ている場合、関係節を名詞より先に言う言語ではどうしたらいいのか。たぶん関係節じゃなくするしかないのかな。