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

>> "Bob that Jim wrong being thus thinks".
>This sounds rather arbitrary and it doesn't conform to any of the
>relative clause patterns I'm familiar with.

It's a bit like the pattern found e.g. in Bhagavad-gita 3:27b.
Simplifiying the sandhi etc, it reads:
atma karta aham iti manyate
self doer I thus thinks
the self thinks "I the doer" = the self thinks that it is the doer.

Peter