I thought previously that Yoda's speech is an emulation of anastrophe frequently seen in poetry. However, as the post article notes, generally the OSV order is barely ever seen in languages.

> “As Gregor Samsa one morning from restless dreams awoke, found he himself in his bed into an enormous vermin transformed.”

You know, this actually makes sense. I think that after a couple of hundred pages, this would just seem like an easy-to-read, natural alternative word ordering.

Then, if the author started substituting German words here and there, starting with the obvious ones, then ones English words are derived from, and so on... before you know it, you'd be reading German!