Warp wrote:

>   Most sentences of the form "A when B" can be changed to "when B, A" and
> it will still be a valid sentece and the meaning won't change. For example:

Most people probably believe that each word has a meaning, and putting 
words together adds their meanings to create a sentence.

This is provably false, however:

   This is hot.
   Is this hot?

Same three words, but one is a statement, the other is a question.

To me, the weird thing about language is that just changing the order of 
words can totally transform the meaning of the sentence...

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