From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <4a2d71c8-807f-4560-b93a-b647fb508c20@googlegroups.com>,   
   Jim Hetley   wrote:   
   >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 . . .   
      
   E. E. Smith tried to write German word order in an attempt of a   
   German accent (in _Triplanetary), but he got it wrong.   
      
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