Originally posted by: Wesyeed
Yeah, I remember watching "yoda" say something to the emperor. He said "Not if anything about it to say I have..." Or something like that. It was so butchered I try to block it from memory. That's not how yoda talks.
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.
Yeah, I remember watching "yoda" say something to the emperor. He said "Not if anything about it to say I have..." Or something like that. It was so butchered I try to block it from memory. That's not how yoda talks.
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.
Yeah, in the original trilogy, Yoda spoke like someone who tried speaking proper english, but that he was from a culture that spoke with reversed sentence structure and made mistakes. He still tried speaking the language properly, but his speech often reverted at key moments. Apparently in the prequels though, english became flexible and Yoda didn't need to worry about speaking it right, ever (except perhaps when it would even sound too ridiculous to George Lucas' childish mind).
Your example was perfect. "Not if I have anything to say about it" is a cliche! If Yoda was going to repeat a cliche then he'd speak it with the same sentence order (and not make his grammatical mistakes). Totally laughable dialogue.