#one thing that i will admit is basically more logical in otber languages is adjectives following instead of preceding their nouns

[qqweebird]

i know that the language you speak natively basically wires your brain to think in a certain way but its always been so hard for me to understand how other languages’ word orders make sense. im taking my second semester of latin and being in this class & the last is the most ive ever had to think about it bc i only took very basic spanish in 4th grade. at least latin is pretty flexible but the typical sentence structure is still weird!

like in my mind a subject-verb-object order is.. it feels temporal. it feels like it describes a sequence of events chronologically, although thats not really true. the most important parts of the sentence come first! i dont have to wait until the end of the sentence to know what is being spoken about & what it did. the verb is almost always at the end of its clause and sometimes the subject is included in it AND the subject is defined by the END of the verb, eg “eam gessit” means “he/she/it carried her” but reads in order something like “her carried(he/she/it).” its not that bad in short sentences, but with a bunch of phrases ? i would hate having to listen to someone speaking it/conversationally bc wtf get all that shit out of the way n get to the POINT what are we TALKING about