Mark Lewis to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   AS>>>> And the gerund he considers [...]   
   AK>>> Also IMHO you violate the word order unnecessary.   
   AK>>> And he considers the gerund...   
   AS>> I think it not a vilation but a natural variation,   
   ML> variation, yes... natural? i dunno... some folks do flip   
   ML> things around like that at time, though... some might   
   ML> point to old english... i don't know... i just say them   
   ML> the way they feel naturally but i've also 50+ years   
   ML> speaking english natively...   
      
   Not to old English but merely to the elegant English of the   
   late 19th century.  For several centuries the variation of   
   word order was a common device for chaging the center of   
   gravity in a sentence, and only of late, when descriptivism   
   has taken over and when the majority of English users are   
   not native speakers of the tongue, the rules, or shall we   
   say usage?, have started to grow more rigid and primitive.   
   Thus, we have lost 'hither', 'thither', 'whither', 'hence',   
   'thence', and 'whence' and the beautiful distiction between   
   'shall' and 'will', &c.   
      
   So I understand the situation.   
      
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