[Rizla]

@Pulpmeister

Well said. And well said, again.

I knew these rules were wrong, but your details on the causes (i.e. Latin) I didn't know.

You state that Latin is insensitive to word order. I thought Latin was big on cases (word order) in order to change meaning (like German). But then, my understanding of Latin-derived languages is that they don't seem to use cases, so I imagine you're right. I read a primer on Latin once, which is where I got the (mistaken?) idea.

It's sort of fun and scary to see the ensconced grammarians on writing forums speak with great authority on grammar, when clearly they don't have a clue what they're talking about.