> Hallo!
>
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:16:04 +0100, Lars Finsen wrote:
>
> > Den 11. nov. 2008 kl. 23.19 skrev David J. Peterson:
> > [...]
> > > One of the best examples I've seen of this type
> > > of language is Fith: a language built use LIFO grammar,
> > > which, in real time, I think is impossible for a human to use.
> >
> > I don't see why it's so unusable. Wouldn't most statements be like a
> > usual SOV language? There's just some curious argument stacking in
> > some of the more involved cases, but nothing much more unmanageable
> > than the verbal stacking that you find in German sometimes, I think.
>
> In a LIFO language like Fith (
http://www.langmaker.com/fith.htm ),
> a simple clause looks indeed quite much like one on an SOV language,
> but that is only a superficial resemblance because the language is
> processed in a way completely different from human languages.
>
> The Fith grammar allows for really bizarre manipulations of word
> order which are indeed at least very hard to follow for humans.
> The language has "stack conjunctions" which duplicate, swap and
> do other things with objects on the stack. By these means, words
> can be pushed on the stack long before they are used, sentences
> can be intermeshed, uttered in reverse order and so on.
>
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