From "decryption" to "translation"

[DonaldFisk]

By the way, about the "verb test". What about beginnings of paragraphs? E.g. in Russian it is not very common to have a verb starting a sentence in a narrative, unless in poetic or colloquial, and also unless the sentence is not interrogative or imperative. Although there are cornercases. In English, same thing, I think - unless to express subjunctive (like "Were I a boy,..."), a verb is not common in the beginning of a sentence, is it? What about other languages?

Celtic and Semitic languages are VSO (except for Modern Hebrew, which is SVO).