From: john.w.kennedy@gmail.com   
      
   On 2015-10-15 04:59:35 +0000, daveorchanian@gmail.com said:   
      
   > 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 . . .   
      
   All six possible word orders are found in natural languages, but OSV   
   and OVS are less common.   
      
   --   
   John W Kennedy   
   "I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of   
   ignorant people is too dangerous to live in."   
     -- Garson Kanin. "Born Yesterday"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)