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IIRC, Yoda has been around so long that, when he was young, that was the way everyone spoke. Languages shift over the years, he just never moved with the times.
He’s doing it on purpose to force people to pay close attention to what he says.
Same reason why some people deliberately speak veeeeryyyy sloooowlyyyyy or take weird breaks every few words. It’s a manipulation tactic to trick people into thinking you’re more important than you really are.
The thing with Yoda’s sentence structure is that it only sounds weird in an analytic language, like english. I grew up with dubbed versions of the Star Wars movies before I learned english and in the hungarian dub, his sentence structures are basically the same, but sunce hungarian in a synthetic language, the sentence structure has little to do when the way conjugation works dominates so heavily.
Yoda uses the Object-subject-verb order which is used by various real languages. So yeah, its natural in the right language. No idea about Yoda’s origianl language, but I’d assume it is
in SWTOR, Jedi Master Oteg is also of Yoda’s Species, he speaks normally (voiced by Jim Cummings of all people!). so it might just be a Yoda specific thing?
IIRC his speech is based off of formal Latin, where it was considered artful to put the verb last, to make the audience have to wait til the last word for the whole sentence to make sense
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IIRC, Yoda has been around so long that, when he was young, that was the way everyone spoke. Languages shift over the years, he just never moved with the times.
He’s doing it on purpose to force people to pay close attention to what he says.
Same reason why some people deliberately speak veeeeryyyy sloooowlyyyyy or take weird breaks every few words. It’s a manipulation tactic to trick people into thinking you’re more important than you really are.
The thing with Yoda’s sentence structure is that it only sounds weird in an analytic language, like english. I grew up with dubbed versions of the Star Wars movies before I learned english and in the hungarian dub, his sentence structures are basically the same, but sunce hungarian in a synthetic language, the sentence structure has little to do when the way conjugation works dominates so heavily.
Yoda uses the Object-subject-verb order which is used by various real languages. So yeah, its natural in the right language. No idea about Yoda’s origianl language, but I’d assume it is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93subject%E2%80%93verb_word_order
in SWTOR, Jedi Master Oteg is also of Yoda’s Species, he speaks normally (voiced by Jim Cummings of all people!). so it might just be a Yoda specific thing?
It’s implied that Yoda’s first Jedi Master spoken a philosophical manner.
Yaddle spoke perfectly normal.
No? His native language would be Basic, same as every other Jedi.
IIRC his speech is based off of formal Latin, where it was considered artful to put the verb last, to make the audience have to wait til the last word for the whole sentence to make sense