[tied] Re: Got to thinkin' about word order

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 12:24 AM
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> > Having a preferred word order when you don't need one gives

highly

> inflected languages so much of their power, since changing the

order of a sentence from it changes emphasis. That is one thing that
English lacks sorely.

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> Of that power had English still much ago a thousand years.
>Apparently the speakers of English decided they could do without it.
>It's too late to change your mind now :-))

He's right, you know. You can't run an empire without a dative.

Torsten

> Piotr