From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <1m7d451.1gyr8hbfm8kouN%mbottorff@lshelby.com>,   
   Michelle Bottorff  wrote:   
   >Jim Hetley  wrote:   
   >   
   >> One bit of warning -- I wrote Germanic word order for a character once,   
   >> and my agent accused me of imitating Yoda . . .   
   >   
   >"In the realm of the sky they walk, and on the mighty lion and fearsome   
   >leapard do they prey.  With elephants they speak, and amoung animal   
   >spirits they live.  As warriors they are feared, for neither pain or   
   >fear do they know, and night or day, as silent as the darkness they   
   >come, and not hand nor hair of them will any watching eye have seen."   
   >   
   >...It's Yoda warning Luke about about the the ancient African   
   >Sith-lords!  ;)   
      
   Nah, that's somebody getting poetical in his prose.  In poetry   
   you can, if you've gotta, play tricks with word order ... IF you   
   use pronouns, which is all English has left with any inflectional   
   endings.   
      
   I once wrote a song celebrating the annual Page School Tourney   
   (kids with boffers), containing the lines:   
      
   Now Sean kills Margrethe, then him slaughters she,   
   And does it again, and that's two out of three.   
      
   Hal has just woken up and said Keith Laumer used to do some   
   interesting things with alien languages in translation: chiefly   
   the Groaci, who spoke in noun phrases and infinitives.   
   >   
      
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   Dorothy J. Heydt   
   Vallejo, California   
   djheydt at gmail dot com   
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