Re: brz, or Plan B revisited (LONG)

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Henrik Theiling wrote, in reply to Jörg Rhiemeier:
> > > For evaluation purposes, I do find the post-fix order easier (too much
> > > Reverse Polish, no doubt  :)
> >
> > My personal taste goes more towards a prefix order.  But at any rate
> > NOT SVO!  That's unelegant, and the notions of "subject" and "object"
> > doesn't apply well to loglangs anyway.
>
> Just curious: why 'unelegant'?  I can understand that for more than
> two arguments, you get an asymmetry that might create the unelegance
> feeling.  But what about langs with only two core arguments?  Would
> that still be unelegant to you then?  For me, in this constallation,
> it's equally elegant as any other word order.
>
> (For me, this is a pure taste question, not an optimality question in
> any way.)
>
> **Henrik
Guys, please!

There's something so ... inelegant about "unelegant".  Defintiely creates
that feeling of inelegance.  :-)

Regards,
Yahya


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