Being a programmer and Latinist, I have to make some comments on your understanding of Latin from L::R::P.

Latin only has six cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative and ablative. The uses being somewhat similar to some of the Finnish cases (according to Wikipedia at least), so Finnish is rather more inflected than Latin actually.

On word order, your're quite right. Word order is very free as long as the words stay within the clause (part-sentence) it belongs in. But in some authors like Tacitus (who I had the [mis?]fortune of encountering this semester), word order is even more free, such that words are occasionally placed such that it appears outside of the clause it belongs in.

All in all, Latin is a quite interesting language, although it requires effort and dedication to master. Not entirely unlike Perl, come to think of it. =)

In reply to Re^2: The Germanic language form by Pic
in thread The Germanic language form by Win

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