• loppy
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    101 month ago

    I really don’t see why you would think this.

    Sooooo, Carl, on Thursday, said that…

    Completely normal thing I would expect to hear.

    • @essteeyou
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      81 month ago

      Unnatural to me, that sounds.

    • Deebster
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      1 month ago

      To be fair, you’ve added commas which makes it a parenthetical phrase. But yeah - people do speak like this in real life; technically, I should have said no-one speaks like this in non-impromptu speech without sounding stilted.

      “Carl said on Thursday” is definitely more idiomatic (to my BrE ears, anyway) than “Carl on Thursday said”.

      • loppy
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        11 month ago

        Yeah, I’ll agree, without any pauses it’s less natural and it’s more of a “buying time to think” thing.

    • LustyArgonian
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      01 month ago

      Yeah just depends what you’re emphasizing. It could be that Thursday is particularly important so it gets moved up to the second piece of info delivered