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   Leszek Karlik to All   
   Re: Linguistic voice woes   
   10 Jul 15 21:21:44   
   
   From: leszek.karlik@gmail.com   
      
   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), Russian is quite flexible concerning the verb   
   position.   
      
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   Leszek 'Leslie' Karlik   
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