From: willreich_77@yahoo.com   
      
   On Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 1:49:13 PM UTC-4, John W Kennedy wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >    
      
   In my fictional languages, Chop is a Pidgin with SVO word order but it is   
   descended mostly from Shai, in which the form of the noun or pronoun tells you   
   its function in the sentence and the word order is simply choice. Chop got its   
   word order and some of    
   its vocabulary from Mothi.    
      
      
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