Pointing out the parallels between “Yodish” (the official name) and other written patterns will give students the confidence to tackle classical literature. Reading comprehension boils down to recognizing speech patterns. Inverted syntax is part of a grand literary tradition that need not be a stumbling block to modern readers. Young children who see the Star Wars films pick up on Yoda-speak immediately, saying things like, “Smart you are,” or “Fun it is.” Yoda inverts the typical English syntax, saying things like, “Strong you are, Luke,” or “Into the mist sadly go I.” The unusual speech pattern has proven to be contagious. In English, the most common word order is subject-verb followed by an adjective, adverb, complement, or phrase. The ancient Jedi plays around with the usual position of adjectives, adverbs, verbs, phrases, and complements. Yoda speaks “Galactic Basic” in his own peculiar dialect-sort of the Bible meets King Lear. The speech patterns of Yoda the Jedi Master can help students get past one of the biggest obstacles in studying Shakespeare: the syntax. Star Wars may be the best thing that ever happened to Shakespeare.
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