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Originally Posted by Rizla
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).
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"Case" means "the grammatical role a noun plays in a sentence", but it is
not the same thing as "word order". English primarily uses word order to determine case; Latin primarily uses inflections. English still uses an inflection (adding an 's) to indicative the genitive (possessive) case.