Word order/splitting the phrase 都合がつかず (possible mistake)


Today I received an email from a business partner. It read:

> 〜、〇〇日（〇）午後が **都合がメンバーのつかず** 、〇〇日が〜

Is the word order in this phrase valid? Is it an editing mistake that resulted
in a phrase different than: メンバーの都合がつかず?

Or is there some other explanation? Could it have been this way written
intentionally?




That word order could **_not_** be called "valid" by any stretch of the word.
The only valid word order is as you said -- 「メンバーの都合がつかず」.

Despite the random word order, though, the phrase would be understood by
virtually all Japanese-speakers because it is short and it contains all of the
necessary words for it to make sense.

How the "mistake" happened, I have no idea. 「都合がメンバーのつかず」 makes no sense as-is
and it is not something a native speaker would say **_knowingly_**. The only
possible words that could grammatically be placed between 「都合が」 and 「つかず」
would be those that function adverbially to modify 「つかず」, such as 「うまく」 and
「なかなか」. 「メンバーの」 is not such a phrase.

I would imagine that a mistake occured in the process of editing as you
suggested. They might have tried to insert the 「メンバーの」 part later and ended up
inserting it in the wrong place.




That word order could **_not_** be called "valid" by any stretch of the word.
The only valid word order is as you said -- 「メンバーの都合がつかず」.

Despite the random word order, though, the phrase would be understood by
virtually all Japanese-speakers because it is short and it contains all of the
necessary words for it to make sense.

How the "mistake" happened, I have no idea. 「都合がメンバーのつかず」 makes no sense as-is
and it is not something a native speaker would say **_knowingly_**. The only
possible words that could grammatically be placed between 「都合が」 and 「つかず」
would be those that function adverbially to modify 「つかず」, such as 「うまく」 and
「なかなか」. 「メンバーの」 is not such a phrase.

I would imagine that a mistake occured in the process of editing as you
suggested. They might have tried to insert the 「メンバーの」 part later and ended up
inserting it in the wrong place.

