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Re: CHAT: I saw it! I saw it! I saw it!

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Monday, June 7, 1999, 23:23
John Cowan wrote:

> > When 900 years old you reach, speak as you damn well please you shall. > > Very true. And "intellectual" the word for Jedi powers hardly is; > "Feel, don't think" to Anakin Qui-Gon says. > > In Chip Delaney's _Nova_, it is asserted that people from the > Pleiades Cluster (one of three areas of human settlement) speak > in SOV fashion. Well and good, until the narrator throws away > the information that this is true in *all* languages! What > about the ones that are already SOV?
What is true in all languages? What gets thrown away by Delaney? I thought Yoda spoke in the quite rare OSV grammar. Like Teonaht. ;-) Sally