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JungKimas would you be if ...Very interesting. That's grammatical, as I have said, but it still seems unusual to me. It seems to me to be part of literary style. It's a little oddity, a strange twist to capture the reader's attention. I can't imagine a friend of mine saying something like that to me in an everyday conversation.
JungKimIf no native speakers would have used this type of inversion in their everyday communication, written or spoken,CJ did not say that.
JungKimwhat I am being told here may be the truth, but may not be the whole truth.What CJ said seems pretty accurate to me.
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fivejedjonAre you suggesting that one film review proves that the construction is common in everyday speech?No, I'm not. Not being a native speaker, I'm not in a position to say it's "common." But, even if the construction is uncommon, that doesn't automatically render it "strange" or "unusual", does it?
JungKimWhenever a native speaker says a construction is strange or unusual, I get the impression that no native speaker will use such a construction.Well, you get the wrong impression.