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Eng: I am good today
De: Mir geht es heute gut
Could the logic behind the word order for German sentence be explained? I have a feeling it is related to what this answer is saying.. but I can't understand what happens when we swap the reflexive pronoun and the personal pronoun here.
First, there is no reflexive pronoun here, so I'm not sure whether you're referring to es or mir. In any case, German word order is flexible, at least when compared with English. So pronouns can usually be swapped with the only difference in meaning being a change in emphasis. The es here is basically just a placeholder, required by the expression es gehen, so it's unlikely that it would be stressed by placing it at the start of a sentence, even though it's technically the subject. There is more to say here but I think it's covered in the answer you linked to.
As @RDBury already wrote, word order is quite flexible in German. The word order Es geht mir heute gut is just as valid as the given sentence.
In typical German statement, it is possible to place almost any of the sentence parts in first position for emphasis. So by placing mir in first position, that word gets some emphasis.
Other possible word orders:
Heute geht es mir gut. (Emphasis on heute)
Gut geht es mir heute. (Unusual but valid word order with a strong emphasis on gut)
7/17/23: I realize that there is one detail about this mentioned practically no where. When dealing with reciprocal verbs, then the verb can either be reciprocal or reflexive. So, just because it's reflexive pronoun doesn't mean it is neccesarily reflexive.
