After watching starwars the other night, I decided I really want to do a study of Yoda-speak!! It'd be such a cool dissertation topic, although somehow I don't think it'd be allowed...
So, being the sad language geek that I am, I worked out that instead of the usual English constituent order (which is basically word order) SVO (subject verb object) he uses OSV (object subject verb). So for example instead of saying 'you still have much to learn' which is SVO, he says 'much to learn you still have' which is OSV!! I know that probably makes no sense to most people but it does to me! The only reason I know so much about this is cos I've been revising it for my exam on monday, so I'm really hoping I get a question on it then I can use Yoda as an example! I think that'd be pretty original and I'm sure it'd amuse the person marking the exam!
I found some stuff on the net about other sad people who have studied Yoda-ish and apparently my observations are true (yay, I understand something!) although it could also be seen as something else that I can't remember but I'll stick with my OSV theory!
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