Perhaps. HTTP, the most RESTful of protocols follows an Irish sentence structure. The Irish language is organized around Verb Subject Object (VSO) structure. This is different for example from English or Swahili, which has a Subject Verb Object (SVO) organization. We should note that RDF is organized like English as are many object oriented languages*. Like RESTful solutions, the VSO structure is uncommon. Unlike RDF solutions, but like object solutions SVO is quite common. Yet the Subject Object Verb (SOV) structure remains the most frequent in natural language, slightly ahead of SVO. Of course, this has significant implications not just for our software solutions, but for our computer communications in general! * Here's a thought: if we converted HTTP to an SVO form by putting the request URI in front of the method, how much more work would it take to convert HTTP requests into RDF? [bob marley: jamming]...
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