[Oh. That's getting complicated -- perhaps too complicated for Lloyd, given he'd been having trouble just knowing which word was what, without adding why they were strung together in certain orders to the mix. Kratos shakes his head.]
Don't think about positioning. You're right; the order of the words will change depending on the language, and sometimes even depending on the dialect. Right now, as far as Lloyd is concerned, where they go and why is less important than their purpose.
[Lloyd grimaces.]
Yeah, I think right now I'll just be happy if I get what they all mean. I mean, I know which order they go in, or I wouldn't be able to write. I just don't know why.
That can come later. Master the building blocks of the sentence before you start thinking about how to fit them together.
[Lloyd laughs suddenly, but before Kratos can feel any doubt about it Lloyd grins up at him.]
You sound like Dad -- my other dad, I mean. When he was teaching me how to make things, he never let me start carving until I knew about all the tools and all about the wood I wanted to use.
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Don't think about positioning. You're right; the order of the words will change depending on the language, and sometimes even depending on the dialect. Right now, as far as Lloyd is concerned, where they go and why is less important than their purpose.
[Lloyd grimaces.]
Yeah, I think right now I'll just be happy if I get what they all mean. I mean, I know which order they go in, or I wouldn't be able to write. I just don't know why.
That can come later. Master the building blocks of the sentence before you start thinking about how to fit them together.
[Lloyd laughs suddenly, but before Kratos can feel any doubt about it Lloyd grins up at him.]
You sound like Dad -- my other dad, I mean. When he was teaching me how to make things, he never let me start carving until I knew about all the tools and all about the wood I wanted to use.