On Feb 10, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:

I could also change the grammar without changing the word order. I could invent some arbitrary, artificial grammar that uses all the same English words but uses an Object-Verb-Subject order. In that artificial grammar, "Man bites dog" would mean exactly the opposite of what it does in good old Subject-Verb-Object English.



Man bitten by dog?

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