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basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

a man sees a dog

a dog sees a man

Order matters. In languages with more redundancy that would work:

Ein Mann sieht einen Hund

subject verb object

Einen Hund sieht ein Mann

object verb subject

But even there it breaks if you switch the articles, though there languages with a lot higher redundancy than German. The less analytic a language is the better that works. Analytic has less forms, but requires a more rigid structure.

The still English can order any legible fact and be completely written in that is be

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