From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:21:44 +0200, Leszek Karlik   
    wrote   
   in in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:11:17 +0200, Dorothy J Heydt    
   > wrote:   
      
   > [...]   
      
   >> Hmmm, word order.  Master Yoda's utterances have   
   >> elicited a lot of humorous comments, but he's just   
   >> basically using Russian word order, verb-final.   
      
   > Actually, German would be a better example, it's a strict   
   > SOV language (subject-order-verb),   
      
   Not really: it’s a V2 language, which is something rather   
   different.  If it were SOV, the sentence   
      
     *Ich ihn schlug.   
      
   would be the default, when in fact it’s ungrammatical.   
   Japanese is a better example.   
      
   > Russian is quite flexible concerning the verb position.   
      
   True.   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)