From lojban-out@lojban.org Tue Dec 06 16:22:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 62378 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2005 00:22:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m35.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Dec 2005 00:22:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2005 00:22:18 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Ejn4a-0002bS-0l for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:22:16 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Ejn3I-0002ab-Fn; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:20:59 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:20:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Ejn2z-0002aD-0m for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:20:37 -0800 Received: from phma.hn.org ([216.189.113.165] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Ejn2x-0002a3-3z for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:20:36 -0800 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8E7FB1B38; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 00:22:14 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 19:22:11 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20051206203757.9914.qmail@web81303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051206203757.9914.qmail@web81303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512061922.12024.phma@phma.hn.org> X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-archive-position: 10842 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 X-eGroups-From: Pierre Abbat From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@phma.hn.org Subject: [lojban] Re: word order was logo X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=X7LP694QUYBXMAZFxC9e0RzZzG6NJ2UOyaudWEITQS2sOF29ow X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 25237 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. As to Lojban word order, supposing it to have evolved from some Proto-Loglanic language instead of being constructed, it appears to me to have been SOV, as {naku} is easier to understand that way. Some verbs naturally make more sense in an SSVO construction, such as {frica}. phma 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.