Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27

Danny Wier wrote:

>More than one-third voted for VSO? DAMN THOSE TECHIANS!! I mean, it does
>seem like a logical word order, with the verb first.
>
And SVO seems like a logical word order, I mean: the subject *does
something* to the object. How more logical can you get than that? A
causes B. Those diagrams for cause-and-affect one of our Psych lectures
had had the symbol for cause in the middle, so A->B. *And* it keeps the
two nouns apart.

I'm not sure that one word order is any more logical than another.

(BTW: How is having the verb first particularly 'logical'? I can
understand why someone might say SVO (or ever OVS) was logical, but I
have trouble with understand any logicalness in VSO (or OSV ).

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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-- John D. Sullivan

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