(urth) On Blue's Waters (Initial thoughts)

Gerry Quinn gerry at bindweed.com
Tue Jan 10 04:09:57 PST 2012



From: Jerry Friedman 


> > Arrghhhhh!!!! NO, NO, NO, NO! He's DUTCH! It's a masterly rendering of 
> > Dutch that Wolfe does there! PLEASE, folks, wait a little before you form your 
> > conclusions!

> Wikipedia says, "Dutch exhibits subject–object–verb word order, but in main clauses the conjugated verb > is moved into the second position in what is known as verb second or V2 word order."
I know he’s supposed to be of Dutch origins (and who knows if Dutch on the Whorl is exactly the same as here anyway) but I agree with Antonin that there seems to be a little bit of Yoda in the mix 
- Gerry Quinn
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