The Guardian – Alex Bellos
“Today the British linguistics community is launching a campaign to make language analysis – the study of patterns in language – part of mainstream school education. To celebrate this campaign, about which more below, here’s a puzzle about Yoda, the cuddly Star Wars Jedi Master. Ready are you? Unless you’ve been hiding in a galaxy far, far away, you will know that Yoda speaks with a distinctive grammar. He inverts pairs of phrases before speaking. If Yoda says “Believe you I don’t”, we know what he means is “I don’t believe you.” Here’s a way to mark up a Yoda sentence to recover its original meaning.” (more)