--- Casey Rousseau <casey at the-bat.net> wrote: > Hmm. Does it boil down to comparing whether it is harder to learn the case > endings that make word order less important in a language like German than > it is to learn the rules of word order in a language like English? Nope. It's always going to be more complicated than that. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com