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Language is a compilation of a group of sounds that transfer information from one human being to another.
Who's doing the compiling? Are the sounds merely at random?
Word order doesn't mean diddly squat if a meaning is successfully transferred.
Some languages get along just fine without word order. The relationships between words is handled in a different way, e.g., by inflections.
Noam Chomsky - and all others with an egoficial need to pontificate - diddle in their own squat.
While I am no great fan of Chomsky's linguistic theories, I am having a tough time catching the drift of your meaning. Perhaps there isn't any, but I doubt that it has to do with word order. Maybe more to do with context or pragmatics, but in this case there does not seem to be one.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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