Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Yodaspeak.
Yoda in the 'Star Wars' epic has a habit of putting the object in front of the clause, like this: / Nine hundred years have I seen. / Translate the following sentences into Yoda-speak, and underline the objects.
1996, David Crystal, with Geoff Barton, “Sentences”, in Discover Grammar, Harlow, Essex: Longman, →ISBN, page 432 more examples
The Star Wars mythology was immediately absorbed into gaming's collective consciousness. Its images and icons became gaming's images and icons. Imperial Walkers, intergalactic empires, light sabers, Yoda-speak, the Force, and ther other conventions of George Lucas' epic storyline became prime components in the kit-bashing process that created electronic science fiction games.
1994 February, Bill Kunkel, “The Fighters, Asteroid Fields, and Training … LucasArts Releases Rebel Assault to Please the Rebel Pilot in Everyone”, in Steve Honeywell, editor, Computer Game Review and CD-ROM Entertainment, volume 3, number 7, Lombard, Ill.: Sendai Publishing Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 106, column 1[…] Yoda-speak often involves moving phrases to the start of the clause (fronting). […] How does the fronting in Yoda-speak compare with fronting in standard English? Is it more or less constrained than English?
2016, Kate Burridge, Tonya N. Stebbins, “Syntax: The Structure of Sentences”, in For the Love of Language: An Introduction to Linguistics, Melbourne, Vic.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part 3 (‘The Deep Grooves of Language’: Sounds and Grammar), page 234
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