Yoda-speak
"Yoda-speak" in a Sentence (3 examples)
The Star Wars mythology was immediately absorbed into gaming's collective consciousness. Its images and icons became gaming's images and icons. Imperial Walkers, intergalactic empires, light sabers, Yoda-speak, the Force, and ther other conventions of George Lucas' epic storyline became prime components in the kit-bashing process that created electronic science fiction games.
Yoda in the 'Star Wars' epic has a habit of putting the object in front of the clause, like this: / Nine hundred years have I seen. / Translate the following sentences into Yoda-speak, and underline the objects.
[…] Yoda-speak often involves moving phrases to the start of the clause (fronting). […] How does the fronting in Yoda-speak compare with fronting in standard English? Is it more or less constrained than English?
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