Hallo!
Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> writes:
> >...
> > > 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.
Yes. I was referring to Lojban-style languages where predicates
can have any number of arguments, and surely "X1 P X2 X3 X4" as
found (to my meager knowledge) in Lojban is not very elegant,
is it?
> 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.
True.
> (For me, this is a pure taste question, not an optimality question in
> any way.)
Yes. Same to me.
Greetings,
Jörg.