From: jhetley@hotmail.com   
      
   On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 2:15:03 PM UTC-4, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   >   
   > Hmmm, word order.  Master Yoda's utterances have elicited a lot   
   > of humorous comments, but he's just basically using Russian word   
   > order, verb-final.  (You can observe this by watching _Alekxandr   
   > Nevsky_ with the English subtitles that were obviously written by   
   > a native speaker of Russian who didn't know English *quite* as   
   > well as he thought he did.)   
   >   
      
   One bit of warning -- I wrote Germanic word order for a character once, and my   
   agent accused me of imitating Yoda . . .   
      
      
   Jim   
      
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