@Jayarava @willbuckingham Only as a model for Tibetan grammar! Because Tibetan is mostly-uninflected.
@Jayarava @willbuckingham Ah, OK! So Tibetans imposed Sankrit case system and verb conjugation on their language… nasty mess.
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@Jayarava@willbuckingham Tibetan grammar not so different from English, which makes Tibetan->Sanskrit->English model ironically bad. -
@Meaningness@willbuckingham Chinese syntax is also similar to English. SVO. Buddhist Chinese is often written with Sanskrit syntax. SOV.
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@Meaningness@willbuckingham Yeah, though of course Buddhist Tibetan is different because it reproduces Sanskrit syntax. - End of conversation
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