Now this is the kind of thing that gets me really excited. I especially grinned at the thought that Hamlet has been translated into Klingon ( Read more... )

Well, for me, anyway.

A friend was asking about this about a week ago. One can say 「I found the movie interesting」 but not 「I thought the movie interesting」. Why?

「Think」 and 「find」 both qualify as what I'll call object-complement verbs, i.e. they take both a direct object and an objective-complement - something that complements the object. (「Find ( Read more... )

I did mention there was more...but well, I was too tired last night...

( Ramblings of a wannabe linguist... )