![]() ![]() An example would be: Yoda grasped the lightsaber.Īnother common construction, and one you’d find more commonly among speakers of Japanese, Albanian, and many other languages, goes subject-object-verb: Yoda the lightsaber grasped. Many of the world’s most-spoken languages-English, Mandarin-are built around constructions that go subject-verb-object. To an English speaker, anyway, the way he orders his sentences sounds vaguely riddle-like, which adds to his mystique.īut what’s actually going on with Yoda, linguistically? First, let’s examine how Yoda doesn’t speak. There’s a narrative effect to the way Yoda speaks. “Found someone, you have, I would say, hmmm?” At first, Luke doesn’t realize the long-eared, wrinkly green creature is, in fact, the one he’s seeking. When Luke Skywalker first encounters Yoda, it’s on a swampy planet in The Empire Strikes Back. ![]()
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