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

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 21426
Date: 2003-05-01

I said:
>Yes, true. But English has a very strict word order out of necessity
>since it has no case endings as Finnish does.

Before somebody needlessly corrects me because of my imprecise
language, technically English does still have case endings
(eg: John's, whom, etc) but certainly case endings aren't all
that important anymore since the days of Chaucer.


- gLeN


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