• YTG123
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    28 days ago

    In Latin for example it’s just a “…near the noun? Whatever, just don’t be ambiguous."

    It doesn’t need to be remotely close to the noun lol

    Though Latin syntax can get annoying sometimes (when do I use the subjunctive? What’s the correct negation? Perfect or imperfect… maybe pluperfect? Which noun is this random genitive modifying?), it does make sense eventually. I guess that is also true for English, but I still mess up the tenses sometimes.

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      28 days ago

      It doesn’t need to be remotely close to the noun lol

      You can, but it isn’t that common, it’s even considered a form of hyperbaton (messing around with word order).

      Note that those distinctions that you mentioned (subjunctive vs. indicative, the right negation, perfect vs. imperfect) are all handled through the morphology in Latin, not the syntax (as in English). And yes Latin morphology can get really crazy, just like Polish or any other “old style” Indo-European language.