Yoda Talk

Johanna N Franklin johannaf+ at ANDREW.CMU.EDU
Fri Jun 25 04:45:29 UTC 1999


    One of my linguistics textbooks mentioned Yoda's sentence structure
as an example of OSV - Object Subject Verb ordering.  As in

When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not.

(I probably don't have that quite right, but it's to that effect...)

I don't think it's completely consistent, but it does seem to work in
exactly this way...

Johanna Franklin



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