>===== Original Message From matz / zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) =====
>Hi,
>
>In message "[ruby-talk:15232] Re: Discussion on new Ruby features"
>    on 01/05/16, "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> writes:
>
>|I wonder if there's an English-vs-Japanese word-order effect here? Or
>|maybe it's just me.
>
>Maybe.  You might not know that Japanese are pretty free-of-order
>language.

You mentioned this before.

For those who missed it, Japanese is like German or Latin in being
an inflected language.  The role of a word in the sentence is
determined from the ending of the word, and not the position of
the word in the sentence.

Thus while there may be an order that people usually use, it is
not required.

What this also means is that any German who wants could put the
verb earlier in the sentence and make translators happy.  But
no, they just have to be difficult about it... :-)

Cheers,
Ben