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Post #489261

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twooffour
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Yodaspeak: A Study In Yoda's Speaking Patterns and Their Frequency in the Star Wars Movies
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Date created
7-Apr-2011, 7:53 AM

asterisk8 said:

I was always under the impression that Yoda's speech pattern was a result of his age, that he came from a different era. I seem to remember Frank Oz saying something about how and why it makes sense that not every sentence of his should be "backwards". I forget the specifics, or where I heard it, but I seem to remember his point being that variation in syntax is one of the hallmarks of natural speech, that we all do it, and it would be unnatural for Yoda to arrange every sentence backwards like we hear in the PT. When Yoda does reverse the order of a sentence, it's sort of a regression to an "old world" form of speaking.

Just my two credits.

 

Either that, or he's from Russia - specifically the Moscham region.