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Re:John le Carré: Why we should learn German (2017) by SkyMarshal on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:49PM (#22242451)
German is Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order. English and others are SVO. I always liked SOV languages since first learning one because they feel like using a Reverse Polish Notation (RPN [1]) calculator like the HP-15c (just mentioned here recently [2]). The verb, like the operator in the calculator, comes last, and operates all on the inputs before it.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation

[2]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22222897

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