Re: [microsound] sgnidroceR esreveR

[Exegene <exegene@xxxxxxxx>]

Consider taking a good look at "linear."

An english speaking obersver of a language odered as subject-object-verb 
will find the observed language mixed up, or jumbled. Or consider the 
joke, 'An american businessperson is in germany, communicating through a 
translator's intermediacy. During a german presentation, the translator 
suddenly falls silent, and stays silent for several minutes. The 
businessperson asks why the silence, the translator repies, "I'm waiting 
for the verb.'"

For some concrete examples, in tibetan, a language structured as 
subject-object-verb, there is (excuse the nonstandard phoneme 
representation) (and the likely errors) 

Nge | p'oe-ke | sung-gi-me.
By Me |tibetan language| speak not am => I do not speak tibetan

khe-sa| yong-khen| mi t'e| khyoe-re| thong| ch'ung-nge?
Yesterday| One who comes| man that| by you| observe| 
(perfect indicative)(interrogative 
part.)?
=>
Did you see the man who came yesterday?

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, { brad brace } wrote:

> 
> ?serutluc lla rof eurt siht sI ?raenil ?lanoitcerid eb ot
> deviecrep )egaugnal dna( sdnuos era yhW
> 
> /:b

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