Re: Dead languages?

docdwarf_at_panix.com
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: 19 Jul 2004 18:53:26 -0400

In article <cdh80o$c47$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>,
Mike Walters <walters@wisp.physics.YOURwisc.eduPANTS> wrote:
>docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
>
>>>Unlike English, where normal word order is SVO (subject, verb, object), Latin,
>>>along with Japanese, has no normal word order. One can rearrange the words in a
>>>sentence and it still says the same thing.
>>
>>
>> This is similar to what I was taught about Ancient Greek, where order word
>> important is very not.
>
>
>Sound like Yoda, you do!

And some folks say that time spent studying dead languages is time
wasted... imagine that!

DD