>Ed Heil wrote:
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>>
>> But it's beautiful. This, I think, is that mysterious thing that
>> typologists call the OV order (I think Jacques Guy, in one of the old
>> conlang archive posts, called it "thinking backwards" -- referring
>> there to Japanese as an OV language), as if "direct-object before
>> verb" was the only or even the most important thing about it. It's a
>> whole way of expression, a very elegant and beautiful way.
>
>Well that's gratifying to me! Teonaht is OV with a vengeance! And I
>do find it hard to think it out!
>
>
>
>> Anyway, it's great. It'd be wonderful if I could make a conlang with
>> beautiful OV-order all over, but I'm not sure I understand it well
>> enough yet.
>
>I'd be pleased to know how Navajo does it. Can you explain it?
>
>>
>> Oh, yes, I wanted to say -- Ray, Sally, it's wonderful to see you
>> back. :)
>
>Thanks! Was Ray gone too? <G>
>
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