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Originally Posted by Columbine
OVS is really rare.  I think only a very small handful of languages use it with any frequency. We can't really use it in English as something like "I love him" would come out as "He love I"; so the meaning gets really confused and backwards!
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Well, technically it would be "Him love I" because "him"is a direct object, while "he" is a subject.