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[-] Deebster@infosec.pub 15 points 4 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.

[-] loppy@fedia.io 6 points 4 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.

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour 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

[-] essteeyou@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Unnatural to me, that sounds.

[-] Deebster@infosec.pub 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 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".

[-] loppy@fedia.io 2 points 2 hours ago

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

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