> Enter, the humble space. And punctuation. And a standardized system of word order. The word order is more important in some languages than in others. English

> Enter, the humble space. And punctuation. And a standardized system of word order. The word order is more important in some languages than in others. English is a great example of the former, as its words rarely change form, so the word order carries a lot of semantic meaning. In other, like Slavic languages, the meaning is most often changed by suffixes, prefixes and other word-altering mechanisms, so you can in many cases completely mangle a sentence's word order and it would still be perfectly intelligible, although sounding a bit strange (and often archaic, which implies that the "standard" word order has changed over time).