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Originally Posted by steven
I think it creates the "Yoda" effect while speaking, if you know what I mean. It's interesting because that kind of speech sounds archaic in a sense. I wonder if the word order of English wasn't different at some point. I have no idea about the history behind that but it sounds like an interesting thing to look into.
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Word order used to be very loose in English over a thousand years ago. It was like German in that it had an extensive case system, so word order was not very important.