On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Howard Winter wrote:

>>> I wonder in how many other languages a Yoda-like rearrangement of grammer
>>> would work?
>>
>> I think in pretty much all European languages derived from Latin or similar
>> to German. (That's because those are the only ones I'm somewhat familiar
>> with.)
>
> Obviously I'm not a native speaker of anything but English, but I'm 
> not sure - German has its rule that a verb should be second or last in 
> a sentence - would it be understandable if the verb was first, for 
> example?

That turns a simple affirmative sentence into a question if you put a 
question mark, or into an imperative without the question mark (and 
with an optional exclamation mark instead).

Peter
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