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Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Sunday, April 6, 2003, 7:09
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From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
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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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