I'm bored. Who wants a fight?
>zhzhzhzhzhzhzh!
>my lightsabre is lit
>zhzh! zhz hzhzh hzhzhzhj!
>I twirl it with magnificence, making you fear me and my awesome powers
I always just assumed Yoda was German, what with all the verb-last stuff...?
>zhzh zhzh
>I cut off Fes' arm, leaving him howling in pain and rage
>boing zhhz zhz jjzhzhz
>I sommersault off a wall, land behind him and stick my lightsabre up his botty-hole
>NO-ONE CAN DEFEAT ME!
>I say "no-one can defeat me!" in allcaps
>
>I wait for my next feeble opponent, meditating upon the living force but making no sound
I've been told that Yoda's speech resembles ASL grammar.
The oddest bit of merchandising I saw for the last film was a series of books teaching children to read--with Yoda as the main character. It was the "Read I Can!" series, or some similar mangled phrase. Mmm, what a way to learn!
Anthony Lane, in a not-entirely-kind review in the New Yorker, has this to say about Yoda's speech mannerisms:
"Break me a fucking give."
I think that about sums it up...
*shoots quid in the face, makes quip about how uncivilised a blaster is, goes home for crazy tentacle sex with Natalie Portman*
"Anthony Lane, in a.."
You know, if you'd read the article I posted, that was in there. A couple of times.
Discovered my hasty skimming you have. To all of you my apologies I extend.
*tries desperately to maintain a minimum of sangfroid with quidnunc's lightsaber up my botty-hole*
I say there, Darth Nunc, since I got out of the Imperial Joint that is strictly "exit only" back there. While I appreciate the depolypification, I'd appreciate it if you'd, ah, go ahead and toggle the off switch, hmm?
stifles a wince*
*force chokes quid, levitates Natalie Portman off of kitfisto's tentacles and into pants, runs away laughing at Fes's glowing botty-hole*
>bezzzew!
>I parry kitsifto's blaster blast thingy
>zhzhzup sorry
>I withdraws lightsabre from Fes' "dark side" and apologise
>zhzh zhzh hjhjzjhzzz hzjhj
>I diembowel patita and Stan with evil ease
>glug glug glug natter natter
>I share a refreshing beveage with Darth Chywalker and talk about old times
If check the security video records you intend, only heartache will follow.
/Lucas over-the-head-obviousness-bashing
remember, yoda is ~900 years old. it's my understanding that mr. lucas wanted yoda's speech to somewhat reflect this fact... i.e., by wildly extrapolating, one could imagine yoda's father, perhaps, penning the star wars version of something like beowulf (beowookie?), for example.
Could be worse -- what if Yoda also suffered from a speech impediment?
"Do or do not, thewe ith no twy!"
"Feaw leadth to angaw, angaw leadth to hate, hate leadth to thpeatch pathwabledy"
It would be even worse if Yoda spoke like Professor Stanley Unwin.
Or Tiny Tim
/before your time
So just because I was born after a certain time, I'm supposed never to have read Dickens, eh?
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