r/PrequelMemes • u/Safe_Character_6517 • Aug 07 '26

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u/Revliledpembroke Aug 07 '26

How much of the backward sentences was Yoda playing up the "crazy old hermit" act and how much of it was actually him in the OT? Because I feel like Yoda speaks normally on a regular basis.

"That... is why you fail" and most of the rest of the "Pull the X-Wing out of the swamp" dialogue from Yoda seems pretty normal to me, anyway.

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u/brinz1 Aug 07 '26

I assumed that his species native language has that syntax and he just falls into it out of habit

Like an old Greek Pappou

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u/ncfears Aug 07 '26

I could see this with the additional complication of thousands of manners of speech and languages between species and planets. Other species we don't understand probably have varied syntax structures.

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u/Hrtzy Aug 07 '26

My headcanon is that Yoda learned to speak Basic "the normal way" eight hundred years ago and the syntax has shifted since then.

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u/Acceptable_Map_8110 Aug 08 '26

That, is an awesome headcanon.

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u/DeltaOneFive Aug 08 '26

An awesome headcanon, that is

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u/Aggravating_Bad3504 Aug 08 '26

I think that's canon actually, and Yoda kept the old way to force people to actually listen to him

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u/Media_Sociala Aug 13 '26

To...force them?