Re: [lojban] Re: logo

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

--- Gregory Dyke <gregdyke@gmail.com> wrote:

> pity about the place in the head in my opinion.
> Subject, Verb, rest of
> sentence is so Standard average European. In
> fact, it's strange how
> many European languages almost always have the
> verb in 2nd position!
> 
> Greg
 
Why strange? European languages -- with a couple
of exceptions (and I don't know their standard
word order) -- are all related, many fairly
closely.  On the 9other hand, many European
languages do have a common SOV pattern -- with
pronoun objects for example.  And, Sapir-Whorf
test notwithstanding, Lojban is very much an SAE
language (as is First Order Predicate Calculus,
although it is usually VSO not SVO).