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      English is actually more structured and rigid language compared to, say, Slavic languages. It is just any language has redundancy, kind of error correction code, so that you can still recognize the meaning even from broken sentences and words.

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      a man sees a dog

      a dog sees a man

      Order matters. In languages with more redundancy that would work:

      Ein Mann sieht einen Hund

      subject verb object

      Einen Hund sieht ein Mann

      object verb subject

      But even there it breaks if you switch the articles, though there are languages with a lot higher redundancy than German. The less analytic a language is the better that works. Analytic has less forms, but requires a more rigid structure.

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