Re: Circumfixes?

>hi when im allowed to freely answer to your mail , which i read with
>interest.
>i think as well that VSO is a more natural syntax, since the verb is
>the most important part usually. i know that pushing the verb to the
>end of a sentence will make it less readable.
>however i hear that some linguists think of SVO as most natural syntax.
>also placing the adjectives behind a noun i think is more natural way,
>following the rule again: the most important words come first, and in
>this case nouns are more important than adjectives.
>
>regards,
>c.s.
Interesting.
You's take great odds to my conlang Nrit, then, where every effort is made
to obfuscate the ultimate meaning of an utterance until the last possible
moment - verbs end sentences, adjectives prefix themselves, as do adverbs,
occasionally the subject incorporates into the verb, conjunctions follow
what they relate, relative clauses like to float in front od what they
describe, etc.  Somewhat like the ancient conlang rikchik(sp?) by dennis
moskowitz, where words sort of float around until they're gathered up by
something like a preposition or conjunction.
A conlang purporting to be readable, though, would most likely be greatly
influenced by the L1 of the conlanger, and to other-language speakers would
fall on tis face.
(You know, I realize suddenly that I haven't worked out how to tense-mark a
prefixed adjective.  Crud.)

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Shreyas