It took me a moment to realize this was supposed to be Yodaspeak. While blunebottle’s version is more elegant, the sentence in the comic could be converted as “Who ate your lunch you will not guess!” Yoda can and does use regular Subject-Verb-Object order, but sometimes when the object or complement is also the topic and he wants to emphasize it, he will front it, producing Object (or Topic)-Subject-Verb order. Various languages do that, but it’s fairly clear that Yoda’s native language is Yiddish.
sirbadger about 6 years ago
Proper grammar rules out Yoda and probably Chewbacca. Outside of that, I don’t know. If someone ate his cinnamon buns, it might be Leia.
about 6 years ago
He needs all the help he can get.
blunebottle about 6 years ago
Ate your lunch, I have! Guess who you will not.
Scorpio Premium Member about 6 years ago
It’s a total mystery. Time to call the Feds.
Tue Elung-Jensen about 6 years ago
That would be “… guess who you will not.”.
jodyh about 6 years ago
Correct you are.
HarryLime Premium Member about 6 years ago
Shouldn’t that be “Your lunch I ate. Who, you will not guess.”
Stevefk about 6 years ago
Actually all that he actually had in the bag was leftover dessert from last night, Obi-Wan’s Cannoli!
I has seen the Enemy! about 6 years ago
Not obvious it is, who ate the food.
jmcever3 about 6 years ago
Guess who ate your lunch, you will not.
D Ob-one B about 6 years ago
Your lunch I ate, guess who, you will not!
MeGoNow Premium Member about 6 years ago
Wrong. Who ate your lunch guess you will not.
J Short about 6 years ago
For the best Yoda phrasing; steep is the competition.
PO' DAWG about 6 years ago
Can you fix something different? I’m tired of these boloney sandwichs.
zeexenon about 6 years ago
It’s “whom”, you idiot. One of these days, I’m going to LASE you to a different place than this and further-further away.
Zen-of-Zinfandel about 6 years ago
Empty, I’m hungry and my stomach is.
Ren Rodee about 6 years ago
This is not the lunch you are looking for! Move along!
StephenRice about 6 years ago
It took me a moment to realize this was supposed to be Yodaspeak. While blunebottle’s version is more elegant, the sentence in the comic could be converted as “Who ate your lunch you will not guess!” Yoda can and does use regular Subject-Verb-Object order, but sometimes when the object or complement is also the topic and he wants to emphasize it, he will front it, producing Object (or Topic)-Subject-Verb order. Various languages do that, but it’s fairly clear that Yoda’s native language is Yiddish.
commerce1943 about 6 years ago
Punchline? Laugh tag? Joke? Any of these anywhere in this panel?
WCraft Premium Member about 6 years ago
Stephen: I kind of don’t think it was Yoda; except for possibly the first sentence; it doesn’t sound like the way he speaks.
rgcviper about 6 years ago
“Tasty, the lunch was. Better attention to your lunch, you should pay.”
levekk about 6 years ago
I guess Yoda is dyslexic.
SkyFisher about 6 years ago
So who is sitting half out of the frame?