Re: (chat) Yoda's word order

Geik (ugly when written, nice when said) sekalge:
>I just saw the new Star Wars today. Could anyone comment on Yoda's
sentence
>structure? Listening to him, I found it very interesting.
>Yoda's sentences, very novel they were. In this list, talk about them,
we
>will. :)
He seems to use a sentence order of VOS most of the time ("Help you I
can"). However, he switches to OVS for dependent clauses ("When nine
hundred years you reach, look as good you will not"). I don't know about
noun phrases, since he doesn't use many, but they would seem to be normal
English.

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