[zerb]

But you can't say "Food want me". Whereas in Old English, the grammar had so many markings that poets could weave distinct phrases together and still convey their meaning. In practice, that would still be awkward for typical speech, but it's cool all the same.

[krylon]

That is one thing I like about Latin - you can (to a degree) completely rearrange the words in a sentence and still make sense of it.