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Star Wars linguistics: Why Yoda’s English is truly alien

By Natalia Levshina / 5 October 2020

You don’t need to be a Star Wars fan to have heard of Yoda, a small but powerful Master Jedi. His most distinctive features are his small stature, large ears and strange word order.


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