[lojban] Re: logo

[Craig Daniel <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

> > 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).

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.

OTOH, my Lojban uses SOV order a bit more than is typical.

mi'e .kreig.daniyl.


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