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Re: Star Wars - Yoda

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 26, 1999, 16:47
Joshua Shinavier wrote:
> 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...
Hmm, who knows? That was just a hypothesis, but perhaps both are true. If Yoda's native language was OSV, and he learned the human language 800 years ago, his speech could be a combination of his native language, the humans' language of 800 years ago, and the modern form of the language. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor