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> "the boy hit the ball" In this sentence, boy=subject, hit=verb, ball=object. > All brains work that way. If language sentence structure reflects how brains
by phs318u 1y ago
> "the boy hit the ball"
In this sentence, boy=subject, hit=verb, ball=object.
> All brains work that way.
If language sentence structure reflects how brains think, then that's not entirely true. While most languages are SVO (subject-verb-object), not all are. Japanese is SOV (subject-object-verb), while biblical Hebrew is/was VSO (verb-subject-object). I'm sure there are other variations.
EDIT: it just occurred to me that Japanese SVO is syntactically similar to Forth/RPN.
- irchans 1y agoForth :) It's been like 30 years since I the last time I wrote a Forth program that was more than 10 lines long---fond memories.