Re: Perl culture, perl readabillity

[Simon Cozens]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:08:14AM -0500, James Mastros wrote:
> Anyway, I'm trying to argue lingustics in a perl ML, with zero training.

That should be taken to mean that this thread is off topic, and should be
taken elsewhere. :)

> Is there a linguist in the house? 

Oh, I guess so.

> (Hm, didn't Larry go to Japan to learn a
> language with wierd word-order?) 

watashi ga kami o aruku 
(I+subject god+object walk)

Of course, that's ungrammatical because aruku isn't a transitive verb. You
need to make it causative:

watashi ga kami ni arukaseru
(I+subject god+ind.obj. walk+cause-to)

> (What's up with Larry, anyway?  Any preliminary RFC responces?)

Very Soon Now.

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