Word Order Matters
rogersgeorge on May 18th, 2020
English is mostly uninflected (it doesn’t have many word endings) so word order makes a difference. Here’s a good example; first two panels:
Greek, for example, is heavily inflected, so word order doesn’t matter so much. The endings tell what words connect to each other. In fact they have a literary technique called chiasmus where the first half of a sentence has the parts of speech in the exact opposite order as the second half. You can’t do that in English. I don’t think. Try to do it and submit your suggestion in the comments.
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