• Deebster@infosec.pub
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    3 hours ago

    It’s a bit stilted and no-one would speak like that (at least without sounding pretentious), but it’s not bad grammar.

    Also, shame on the moron that downvoted you for asking a question.

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      3 hours 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.

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        3 minutes 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

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        2 hours 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”.

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