Talk:Hyperbaton

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[edit] Yoda's quote

In the English examples question, there was the following quote by Yoda:

"Size matters not! Judge me by my size, do you?" - Yoda in "The Empire Strikes Back"

I removed it because I don't think it was an example of hyperbaton—the word order is not changed by the speaker for emphasis or effect, but rather that's how Yoda speaks all the time. (It could be argued that George Lucas used hyperbaton, but for the entire character, not for this sentence. I still wouldn't agree, because the emphasis is towards the speaker, not towards the words.)