> Exactly! I call it pairing, but proximity is a good word too. I believe
> that it is universal.

By the way, referring to the discussion that is currently taking place in
Auxlang, the fact that the "proximity principle" is universal is very
important for world pidgin. The initial building blocks of world pidgin
are "just words" (as Antony Alexander puts it) and the "proximity
principle", which is inherent to all people. So if you know some global
pidgin words, you can communicate in an elementary way, be it SVO or SOV,
head-first or head-last, it doesn't matter.

Unlike Neo Patwa, Pandunia was never meant to be a prototype for world
pidgin, but it has gone to that direction when I have reduced grammar and
replaced grammatical structures with lexicals.

-- Risto