From: john@jfeldredge.com

On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:21:44 +0200, Leszek Karlik wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:11:17 +0200, Dorothy J Heydt
> 
> wrote:
>
>
> [...]
>> Hmmm, word order.  Master Yoda's utterances have elicited a lot of
>> humorous comments, but he's just basically using Russian word order,
>> verb-final.
>
> Actually, German would be a better example, it's a strict SOV language
> (subject-order-verb), Russian is quite flexible concerning the verb
> position.

Mark Twain agreed with you on that.  In "A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court", he wrote, "Whenever the literary German dives into a
sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on
the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."

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