Yoda sure talks funny… As a geek and – let’s face it – a decent human being, I can’t help but love him. As an English teacher… I just want to smack the little dude around! With each sentence my fingers instinctively conspire to flick his pointy ears! He’s simply harshing my mellow. How am I supposed to teach negations when my Students hear: ‘Wars not make one great’? How to explain English questions when Yoda asks: ‘Found someone you have, eh?’ How can my instruction on conditionals be respected when he says: ‘If informed the senate is, multiply our adversaries will.’? Grrrrrrrrr… you little green linguistic rebel!
However, I’m going to strive to instruct anyone who enters here on some pretty straightforward language issues that may be of interest to you. And I intend to do it through the medium that may appeal to a whole galaxy of you out there – the geek world! ’cause this is where I like to roll…
So… younglings, younglins, gather ’round!