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   John F. Eldredge to Leszek Karlik   
   Re: Linguistic voice woes   
   11 Jul 15 00:02:02   
   
   From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:21:44 +0200, Leszek Karlik wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Mark Twain agreed with you on that.  In "A Connecticut Yankee in King   
   Arthur's Court", he wrote, "Whenever the literary German dives into a   
   sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on   
   the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."   
      
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