Re: Star Wars - Yoda

> I was thinking, perhaps Yoda's odd speech patterns *aren't* the result
> of his first language, but are a survival of an archaic form of the
> human language?  Yoda was 900 years old, English of 900 years ago was
> quite different.  I just thought of that when I thought of the line
> "What know you of ready?", just like archaic English's inversion rule.
Hmm, isn't his word order a little too weird for that?  Could a language
go from OSV to SVO in 900 years?  Bit of a futile question, I know,
considering that OSV languages are next to unknown...

Josh