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Re:The future of UI is text by JupiterMoon on Sunday October 11, 2015 @02:19PM (#10370308)
Interesting. I'd not realised this before but in terms of human language classic CLI is of the form: Verb Subject

Whereas English (and other European languages that I know some grammar for) are of the form: Subject Verb

I.e. you're advocating that CLI interfaces should be more like English...

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Re:The future of UI is text by rafaelnonato on Sunday October 11, 2015 @02:26PM (#10370336)
Except the text to tweet is not the subject, but rather the object. And English is VO, just like the command line. The suggestion is that we use Japanese's OV order.
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Re:The future of UI is text by JupiterMoon on Sunday October 11, 2015 @02:35PM (#10370387)
Yep I'm wrong sorry.
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Re:The future of UI is text by kuschku on Sunday October 11, 2015 @04:06PM (#10370714)
And then you have German, where VSO/VOS is a question, and SVO/SOV/OSV/OVS are normal sentences.
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