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>> > Ah, but many of them developed SVO order
>> > independently; it wasn't
>> > inherited from PIE. Anglo-Saxon was a VO
>> > language, but Latin was
>> > primarily OV; this order remains in certain
>> > situations in Spanish,
>> > which is a default VO language.
>>
>> "Independently" does not make much sense in a
>> place as small as Europe or as full of constantly
>> marauding bands.  To be sure, it is not clear

True, but it's hard to argue that Germanic languages had nearly as
much influence on Spanish as, say, Arabic.

What's the word order in Arabic, anyway?

>> > OTOH, my Lojban uses SOV order a bit more than
>> > is typical.
>>
>> Interesting.  Have you had any problems with
>> this?  VSO gets incomprehension at least occasionally.

I've yet to have any Lojban conversations face to face, but on IRC I
tend to be understood. However, when a sentence gets unweildy, I
consistantly revert to the standard SVO order, which probably helps
comprehension a fair amount.


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