Re:Reasons some languages are harder to learn
by tom_mellior on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:25AM
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This is misleading. The translation could trivially make him use incorrect word orders. "Lost in translation" suggests that it would be difficult to make him speak in a quirky way, but that's not the case at all. The translator just couldn't be arsed. They couldn't even be arsed to give him a non-human voice. It's just a shoddy translation/dub, not a statement about the Hungarian language.
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The thing is, Yoda doesn't simply use an "incorrect" word order. He uses a word order which emphasizes the focus of his sentence by putting it first. Since Hungarian already does this, there is nothing different in Hungarian about the way Yoda talks.
Re:Reasons some languages are harder to learn
by tom_mellior on Monday May 17, 2021 @04:28PM
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> Since Hungarian already does this, there is nothing different in Hungarian about the way Yoda talks.
Yes. My point was merely that this is bad. Yoda is supposed to talk differently. If he doesn't, then the translator didn't do their job properly.