We all order in the same way, no matter what language we
speak. That neat trick occurs in the course of daily affairs, not in an
Esperanto-only restaurant. People nonverbally represent all kinds of events in
a consistent order that corresponds to subject-object-verb, even if they speak
a language such as English that uses a different ordering scheme, a new study
finds.
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