In a message dated 1/28/2002 5:59:47 PM Central Standard Time, ragnarok@pobox.com writes:I use SOV whenever it would be as clear as the SVO (there are times when it Interesting, I was aware of it as a regular pattern in use only from people with Romance language backgrounds (you don't have one, do you?) where it is a norm with pronouns at least. <I have been reading about 'implicational universals' among languages, and Lojban is similar to both SVO and SOV languages in other aspects, but slightly closer to SVO.> Interesting. Details, please. Moght this say something about what is natural Lojban style? (Assuming we don't want to do something just because no other language does.) |