Re: Got to thinkin' about word order

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "aquila_grande" <aquila_grande@...>
wrote:

> Well, what I said about partitive, was a sort of joke.
>
> But I do not think the finnish case system is archaic. Actually it

is

> highly inovating. Neither do I think it is cumbersome.
>
> I know two forign languages besides Norwegian and English, namely
> Italian and Finnish. Actually I know much more Italian words than
> finnish words. Nevertheless, I think it is much easier to form a
> sentence in Finnish than Italian.
>
> I also know some German, a language I find extreemly rigid and
> cubersome.
>
> I know it is not politicly correct to link language and technical
> abilities, but nevertheless I think there is some connection.
>

Even less politically correct, if you replace a fifth of the
population of an industrialised country with people from third world
countries, the average technical level of compentence in that country
will of course approach that of a third world country, no matter how
logical the language is. There goes Ericsson. Compare with the Romans
granting hospitalitas within their borders to the Goths.

Torsten