Originally posted by: CO
He talks backwards a few times in ESB, but not nearly as much as the other 4 movies after.

And that was exactly the point. Yoda was supposed to talk backwards occasionally because we were to assume that his original language worked like that. He was supposed to come at speach like someone from another country who tries to speak english correctly, but sometimes reverts back to what is most natural for him or her. George Lucas then turned him into a caricature worthy of ridicule. Depressing. Yoda was so cool before the PT.