From: CeiSerith@...
Message: 21433
Date: 2003-05-01
Even so, Finnish as
well as all languages on the planet have more common, "preferred"
word orders
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.
David Fickett-Wilbar