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

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).

> 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!!>

Sally ;-)