If you’ve spent most of your life as I have, listening to Yoda’s words of wisdom while playing with Star Wars action figures, the idea of proper English coming from Yoda’s puppet lips would cause some serious cognitive dissonance. Still, that hasn’t stopped Vimeo-er MechaStewart from editing the Star Wars sextology to right Yoda’s wrong English so that he now sounds like a native speaker.
The result is something awful and strange and funny, all at the same time.
For me, part of what made him sound wise was his convoluted syntax: my grandmother and great-uncles and -aunts speak Yiddish as their first language, and they too employ unusual turns of phrase, such as, “Everything, I hope it’s okay.”
Well, it’ll be okay as soon as I rewatch Star Wars in the proper order: object-subject-verb, that is.
Check it out.
Via The Mary Sue.