alt Hacker NewsMy instinct was that it was more of a "germanic" sentence structure, but I am rusty on these things and there's enough bad amateur linguistics on the internet for me to add to it.
Or maybe we're both right? Could be a co-relation.
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mensetmanusman • 12/10/2024
It’s still modern English :D
English doesn't have a set word order anyway, its just that nobody bothers to determine the rules for it since whatever system we've arrived at is far more arcane than classically "analytic" languages.
The analytic/synthetic divide doesn't make sense anyway, it's just pulling from Kant and a poor reading of him at that.