Yoda, the venerable Muppet-cum-Jedi Master featured in the Star Wars films, is known for his method of warping English grammar and rearranging words within sentences.
So is the Bard.
It seems logical that they should be combined. If Yoda read aloud the scrambled phrasing of Shakespeare, maybe it would more closely resemble modern English in sentence structure. Perhaps more likely is the chance that it'll just sound even more garbled and incomprehensible. That makes it the perfect pretentious audiobook for making yourself feel more intelligent. Thus: The Complete Works of Shakespeare, As Read By Yoda. May the farce be with you.-- DrWorm, Dec 04 2010 Yoda Poetry Yoda_20Poetryenjoy [bungston, Dec 04 2010] http://prestwickhou...helps-students.html “The castle of Macduff I will surprise.” [jutta, Dec 04 2010] Wikipedia: Anastrophe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnastropheYoda's favorite rhetorical figure. [jutta, Dec 04 2010] Modern English http://en.wikipedia...wiki/Modern_englishShakespeare's works _are_ in modern English. [spidermother, Dec 04 2010] taH pagh taHbe' http://www.youtube....watch?v=CiRMGYQfXrs [Dub, Dec 04 2010] Convert English to Yoda-Speak Gadget http://www.google.c...vice/yodagoogle.xml [Dub, Dec 04 2010] Teach you I must. Learn you shall. http://prestwickhou...helps-students.html [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 05 2010] The Complete works of William Shakespeare on-line. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/Tuck in, you must. [DrBob, Dec 06 2010] Full fathom five Darth Vader lies; Of his bones are metal made; Those are screens that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a side-change Into something dark and strange.-- baconbrain, Dec 04 2010 That's the idea.-- DrWorm, Dec 04 2010 Is Yoda's speech OVS?-- nineteenthly, Dec 04 2010 It's not the language difference which makes Shakespeare hard to follow, and it is in any case trivial.-- nineteenthly, Dec 04 2010 Best in the original Klingon-- Dub, Dec 04 2010 [bigsleep], {Golf clap} just beautiful!-- Dub, Dec 04 2010 //"What light through yonder window breaks." //
What, precisely, is difficult to understand about that (apart from the fact that it's missing a question mark)?-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 04 2010 I admit that I'm exaggerating the difficulty of understanding Shakespeare. In fact, I quite enjoy reading his works. I just like that both he and Yoda are zealous users of anastrophe (thanks for the link, [jutta]). And trust me, not everyone is as adept as we halfbakers are at deciphering poetic grammar.-- DrWorm, Dec 04 2010 Yay for sooth. Shakespeare, as thine words reacheth from beyond the ages and drape glittering upon our hollow souls, you truely were the Justin Beeber of your day. [+]-- doctorremulac3, Dec 04 2010 <WHIRRRRRRRRRRR>
"Hear that ? That's Will S. spinning in his grave ..."-- 8th of 7, Dec 05 2010 This is brilliant. [+] (edit: Brilliant, this is. Thanks [8th]...)-- Grogster, Dec 05 2010 Pronounced, "Brilliant, this is", {Grogs]-- 8th of 7, Dec 05 2010 To halfbake, or to halfbake not--that, the question is. Whether, in the mind to suffer, nobler 'tis The bones and buns of fortune outrageous Or annotations to make a sea of troubles against And,by opposing, them end. To post, to sleep-- No more--and by a post to end, say we, The heartache, and the thousand shocks natural That heir to is flesh. A consummation it is, Wished devoutly to be. -- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 06 2010 A man there was, once, from Nantucket Whose dick so long was suck it he could. And with a grin said he As his chin he wiped off , "If a cunt, my ear was, I could fuck it."-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 06 2010 [+] hah!! sp: spinneth in his grave-- xandram, Dec 06 2010 sp: in his grave spinneth-- baconbrain, Dec 06 2010 His grave, spinneth he therein.-- pocmloc, Dec 06 2010 Was Yoda Jewish already?-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 06 2010 Actually, how about Yoda-dubbed porn?-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 06 2010 You'll be wanting to look at the 'Jenna Loves Gollum' idea, I think, Max. Or perhaps not.-- DrBob, Dec 06 2010 If Shakespeare were alive today he'd be spinning in his grave.-- doctorremulac3, Dec 06 2010 Eh tu, Yoda?-- Newshound, Dec 11 2010 random, halfbakery