Re: Strange voices

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Stone Gordonssen :
>
>> "The mat on-it-sleeps a cat" would make perfect sense to a speaker of
>> Hixkaryana (sp?) which is an OVS natlang. (Drat! I've already packed
>> that
>> book.)
>
>
> An OVS natlang?!!!
Surely you know of The Law of Natlangs Having Already Done it? :P (I've
heard about at least one of these languages... dunno if it's this one or
not (I think the I'm thinking of is South American)... Apparently it's
the least common word order, though. (Surprise, surprise))

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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