> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Benjamin J. Tilly wrote:
>
> > >===== 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.

Slavic languages use a lot more declension than Germanic, for example, in
Polish:

To jest pioro
This is a pen

piorem pisze OR pisze piorem
I write with a pen   (like latin ablative)

Now, I have to learn Japanese and see if it's like that.

Wayne