Yoda-speak

See also: Yodaspeak

English

Noun

Yoda-speak (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of Yodaspeak.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1996, David Crystal, with Geoff Barton, “Sentences”, in Discover Grammar, Harlow, Essex: Longman, →ISBN, page 43:
      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.
    • 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:
      […] 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?
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