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Why Sounds Yoda so Archaic?

by David Tollen | Oct 22, 2015 | The Postclassical Age (Medieval History), Linguistics & Philology

Says Yoda things like: “Powerful have you become; the dark side I sense in you.” Sounds it like speaks he an old dialect of English. Yet uses not Yoda “thou hast” or “erstwhile” or “thee” — or any other word or...