Re: CHAT: I saw it! I saw it! I saw it!

Sally Caves wrote:

> Tom Wier wrote:
> >
> > Nik Taylor wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, that still wouldn't explain "I cannot teach the boy.  He has no
> > > patience", as opposed to "Teach the boy I cannot.  No patience he has"
>
> Yes, but it wasn't meant to!  Tom and I were talking about the
> functioning of the other sentence (help you I cannot).
Ah, I did one of my classic jump-ins -- I thought he was talking about
the language in general,  and made the judgement based on the numerous
examples of that particular word order elsewhere in the thread. <sigh>

> > True.  All I can say to this is that perhaps he was speaking in the
> > official or standard dialect.
>
> At the risk of getting my head chopped off, I opine that the makers of
> Yoda don't have a clue about what they're doing linguistically, and that
> inconsistencies are not to be wondered at.   <Yikes! Duck!!>
Oh, sure, I agree with that.  For all their other preparation, they don't
seem to have gotten a good language consultant like the Star Trek movies
did.  I was only speculating about the concultural reality, not the real
reality. :)

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