Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Inversione

In alcune pagine di "The Mexican" [1913], bella "short story" di Jack
London, l'Autore fa spesso uso dell'inversione dell'ordine della frase
per enfatizzare certi elementi.
Mi chiedo come suoni oggi a un madrilingua inglese una prosa del
genere:
| "I am not afraid if Diaz and his killers; but this boy, of him am I
| afraid. I tell you true. I am afraid. He is the breath of death."
| Yet Vera it was who persuaded the others to give the first trust to Rivera.
[anziche' "Yet it was Vera who..."]
| "Not even God would he permit to stand between him and the way of
| his passion."
| "He knows nobody. He hates all people. Us he tolerates, for we are
| the way of his desire. He is alone... lonely."

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Non conosco la stora, ma è chiaro che l'inversione non è per enfasi, ma
per indicare che la persona che parla non è di madrelingua inglese;
insomma, parla un inglese un po' spagnolizzante.
Hemingway fece la stessa cosa in "For whom the bell tolls".
-- 
Mary

 Hemingway fece la stessa cosa in "For whom the bell tolls".
Forse si puo` rendere allo stesso modo anche un inglese italianizzante 
Per esempio:
"Us he tolerates" = "Ci tollera"
:)
-- 
"if the speed of light were sixty miles per hour, life would be
youthful, fast, and dark."
http://www.cyberslayer.co.uk/jokes/joke0587.html

 "Us he tolerates" = "Ci tollera"
Per rendere l'inglese italianizzante, in genere si omette il pronome
soggetto, es. "Is very hot".
-- 
Mary

>>| the way of his desire. He is alone... lonely."
Although, as Mary points out, the inversions are most likely to show a
non-native English, the above type is quite common in AmEng, for emphasis.
"I don't care about anyone of them. You I care about. You're my friend"
"They never call him for anything. They pretend he doesn't exist. Her they
call, but that's for another reason altogether."
If these are spoken, there would be heavy stress on "You" and "Her".
Note that "...for we are the way of his desire" is a very stylistic and
outdated syntax these days.
-- 
I am Ketzl's stooge
Un-not my address if you wanna e-mail me.

 the above type is quite common in AmEng, for emphasis.
better described as "contrasting emphasis."
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 outdated syntax these days.
Oh, that's why I liked it, then. (smiling face)
Bye, FB
-- 
L'importante è che risplenda tu, sola primadonna e immarcescibile leggenda
del tuo pianerottolo.
(Lucangel su it.cultura.libri)

 Oh, that's why I liked it, then. (smiling face)
I shoulda known. :)
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 I shoulda known. :)
"Foh we aah the way to his dezaaah", to be precise.
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 "Foh we aah the way to his dezaaah", to be precise.
Unless you're from Bahstin:
Foh we aah the way t' his deZYahh."
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 Foh we aah the way t' his deZYahh."
Actually it is "deZYahh" in Britain, too, but when you want to be emphatic
you say "dezaaah" (I guess the Queen always pronounces in that way).
Bye, FB
-- 
Io ho deciso di rifiutarmi di vederlo: Ettore con la faccia di Eric Banana
mi fa venire i conati.
(commento sul film "Troy" su it.fan.scrittori.tolkien)

 non-native English, the above type is quite common in AmEng, for emphasis.
Ma si direbbe mai
"Yet Vera it was who... " 
?

 ?
Mai, negli USA.
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 Mai, negli USA.
Anche in GB sarebbe raro; è una forma abbastanza antiquata.
-- 
Mary

Anche in GB sarebbe raro; è una forma abbastanza antiquata.
Uno straniero non dovrebbe andare in giro dicendo cose cosi' a meno
che non sia in grado di mantenere sempre questo "tono".
-- 
Adam Atkinson (
gh...@mistral.co.uk
)
I have a spelling chequer. It came with my pea sea. It plane lee
marques for my revue miss steaks eye can knot sea.