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> you can think of word order in Hungarian like the word order that Yoda uses Absolutely. So much so that in the Hungarian dub of Star Wars Yoda speaks normaly
by krisoft 5y ago
> you can think of word order in Hungarian like the word order that Yoda uses
Absolutely. So much so that in the Hungarian dub of Star Wars Yoda speaks normaly, like any other character. His vocal weirdness thing completely gets lost in the translation.
- tom_mellior 5y agoThis 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.
- yosito 5y agoThe 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.
- tom_mellior 5y ago> 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.