Hi, Ali Smith. The word order switch-round is similar to that between ‘for your help, many thanks’ and ‘many thanks for your help’. Your preferred sentence may be matched with ‘many thanks ...’, as a mirror image.
Yek donyaa mamnun (‘thanks a world’) is just a stock phrase which is more informal than, for instance, ‘my debt of gratitude to you knows no bounds’.
Yek donyaa mamnun (‘thanks a world’) is just a stock phrase which is more informal than, for instance, ‘my debt of gratitude to you knows no bounds’.
Why should the original sentence be wrong and yours right?
Your first sentence describes the unmarked, neutral word order. The re-built version is just that -- no more a spontaneous utterance, it becomes quite formal, almost written-register Persian.
I'd definitely add the verb here, BTW, but I wouldn't do it to the original.
I'd definitely add the verb here, BTW, but I wouldn't do it to the original.
I respectfully disagree. You see, to pose a challenge is typically just another, perhaps more critical, way of inquiring, and it can be profoundly transformative for natives who tend to take their language for granted, their knowledge of it a sure thing. In this particular case the bringing up of a doubt can serve to establish that word order is in fact fluid in certain parts. Take this as a further example of fluidity:
ممنون یک دنیا برای توضیح عالیتان
My personal rule is, if it provokes an actual discussion bringing to light rules and reasons, misconceptions, blind spots, and possible habits of speaking incorrectly or even teaching badly, then a challenge should in fact be encouraged.
On the question of teaching badly, I could have stressed before that had the original speaker said,
برای توضیح عالیتان یک دنیا ممنون
the word order would have underscored more the “superb explanation”, allowing it to justify yet slightly weaken the thanking part.