To me he never just spoke in badly constructed sentences. He just had his own manner of speaking the language, or style for whatever reason. It was taken to an extreme in the new trilogy.
I think though tpm raped yoda visually, it's the only one to really maintain his original essence to some degree. Or maybe it's just because he wasn't hopping around like a cartoon character on crack. OH well.
And yes, that's prettymuch how I feel too about how sometimes the OT'd just leave certain things to our imagination. That's what star wars is about to me back then. When I was at school doing some boring work and i thought about star wars, it wasn't about the fx, I could care less about how many flips and twirls a jedi did in a lightsaber battle, it was about the force and why yoda and vader claim it's so powerful. What could luke, or even I, do with this power? That sort of thing.