a thought

I have been thinking about this for a couple of days and been meaning to share it (assuming, of course, that it's worth sharing). In English, adjectives come before nouns and in Spanish it's the other way around. Seems to me that this lends English a note of surprise or tension that can't exist in Spanish because you can say, "I saw an enormous black dog" and until you give a noun the dog could be any number of things. But in Spanish you give it up right away, "Ví a un perro enorme y negro." There's no tension in that sentence. The English way is so much more fun. I'm not really sure why I think that's so interesting and it sounds a lot deeper in my head than I am apparently capable of making it sound in writing, but there you have it.