From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Dec 06 19:09:18 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:09:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Ejpg4-0004cA-SR for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:09:09 -0800 Received: from mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.25]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.54) id 1Ejpg2-0004c3-3r for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:09:08 -0800 Received: (qmail 28371 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2005 03:09:04 -0000 Received: from at.ropine.com (HELO [192.168.1.56]) (sethg@[66.92.76.238]) (envelope-sender ) by mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Dec 2005 03:09:03 -0000 Message-ID: <4396524A.4030200@ropine.com> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:08:58 -0500 From: Seth Gordon User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: word order was logo References: <20051206203757.9914.qmail@web81303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200512061922.12024.phma@phma.hn.org> In-Reply-To: <200512061922.12024.phma@phma.hn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 10843 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sethg@ropine.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Tuesday 06 December 2005 15:37, John E Clifford wrote: > >>--- Craig Daniel wrote: > > >>>What's the word order in Arabic, anyway? >> >>Good question. Any at least tyros? > > > IIRR Semitic was VSO, though SVO is fairly common in Hebrew. The Hebrew of the Bible and Mishnah, and the Aramaic of the Talmud were VSO. Modern Hebrew is SVO. I don't know about Arabic. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.