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|    daveorchanian@gmail.com to Dorothy J Heydt    |
|    Re: Linguistic voice woes    |
|    14 Oct 15 21:59:35    |
      On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 11:15:03 AM UTC-7, 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. (You can observe this by watching _Alekxandr       > Nevsky_ with the English subtitles that were obviously written by       > a native speaker of Russian who didn't know English *quite* as       > well as he thought he did.)              If you want to look at OSV order, look at such Brazilian languages as Xavante.       Or at the Romance language Sardinian . . .              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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