[andreasvc]

No, it is not some arbitrary choice, it confirms to the [second] most dominant word order in natural languages: subject-verb-object.

[canjobear]

In fact, the most common word order in natural languages is subject-object-verb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93object%E2%80%9...

But SVO is a close second, and certainly more common than verb-subject-object (the equivalent of `function(arg1, arg2)`).