Re: (chat) Yoda's word order

Christian Thalmann sekalge:
>That's actually an OSV sentence.  "Can" is the finite verb here.  I'm
>not quite sure what kind of sentence element "help" is here, probably
>some kind of "verb complement".  =P
AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Sorry am I. (Irregular that sentence is, but Yoda's oddity it has.)
Needed to get that out of me I did.

Spent too long with English I have. If Sturnan this was, definitely right
you would be, and "galem vunsei", I can to help, it would be (the object
"to help" is). But this isn't, and class "can" with verb aspects I would.
Delegated to the end aspect particles (aka "helping verbs"; English
teaching conventions I hate) for Yoda are. If not right for all I am,
then right to Lucas's view I am.

I saw the movie tonight. Yoda countered force with directly opposing
force, whereas he should have deflected. He's Karate when he should be
Aikido. But then he would have won.

Wright!