[sc34wg3] CTM: Realistic use cases or toy examples?

[Conal Tuohy]

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 08:57 +0900, Jaeho Lee wrote:
> Subject-Object-Verborder is just one issue, but not the major one. I
> don’t want get into that argument here.
> I just wanted to point out that naturalness in one culture may be
> awkwardness in other different culture.
> That is why I advocate a kind of culture-neutral notation with
> semicolon. 
> If one desperately need it, and the other can tolerate with it, well,
> IMHO, I would go with it.
> If you want an explanation of why it is awkward, not just because of
> word order, please let me know.
> I can give you a 5 min lecture :) 

I think this is an important question, so I would love to see the brief lecture :-)
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Conal Tuohy
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
www.nzetc.org