Strange Brew by John Deering for February 05, 2024

There is no try. There is only do the homework or fail.

Well, German very frequently has the verb at the end of a sentence.

Old School, Yoda is.

Does Yoda yodel?

Detention, you now have. Yes, hmmm.

you know, thinking about those school days long ago, when i was in Catholic grade school, “ain’t” was considered a swear word…

Jar Jar heads up the Math dept.

I think those lessons would be fun.

“New English”, from the same thoughtful folks who brought you “New Math.”

There’s a very consistent syntax to Yoda-speak that a lot of people get wrong when they try to write it. The comic has him speaking “correctly” – no errors here, but I see people getting it wrong all the time. The direct object before both the subject and verb, you must put. Predicate nominatives also in front of both verb and antecedent, they are. Correct, this is. Sometimes Yoda inverts it to normal word order for very strong emphasis – “The dark side clouds everything!” If he does this, he’s upset about something. While training Luke, he sometimes has full paragraphs of dialog that show how he constructs more complicated sentence structures. It’s actually hard to do it right as sentences become more complicated, but Yoda makes it seem natural because of the consistency of his own syntax.

Thanks to Star Wars, kids everywhere owned a toy Yoda.

You must unlearn what you’ve learned, sort of.

The hovering pen is a nice touch.