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Is Yoda German?

James Joyner · Sunday, May 22, 2005 · 2 comments

Donald Sensing makes the case that famed Jedi master Yoda is, in fact, German.

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College and a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm vet. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

Comments

Yippee-Ki-Yay! says:

Sunday, May 22, 2005 at 10:26

German Languagesyntax Complicated Is

You have got to read this -- and if you've ever tried to learn German (five years plus, in my case -- junior high school, high school, and college), you it all the more hilarious will find. As for the Yoda connection, I seem to rec…
Kent says:

Sunday, May 22, 2005 at 15:16

I dunno, James. Consider this fragment of a poem by e e cummings:

Anyone lived in a pretty how town
With up so floating many bells down.

Reminiscent of Yoda is it not? But e e cummings was not trying to duplicate German syntax; he was trying to duplicate the flexibility of Latin, or so I was taught.

I always assumed Yoda was a kind of short, green, alien version of the British public school Latin teacher.