From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 21450
Date: 2003-05-02
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Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Got to thinkin' about word order
> 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.
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 :-))
Piotr