Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27

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From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 7:54 AM
Subject: 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 ).
>

Easy, *something is done by the subject to the object*.  The emphasis is on
the something.  I mean, surely what is done is more important than the
things themselves.  The verb is the central concept of the sentance, and to
show that, it should be placed first.

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