>>You sound like Master Yoda. :))
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>>Be careful Mr. Lucas! New talent in the block. :))
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>Don't know about Spanish (assuming that's what is spoken on your green islands), but Yoda was pretty much impossible to translate into Serbian. The meaning was there alright, but it was impossible to translate the strangeness of his order of words - because that order is among the natural (albeit somewhat less used) possible orders of words in a sentence.
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>This time I just fancied dispensing with the grammatical paraphernalia of English and reducing the sentence to bare minimum, assuming that "...everything else, above" would be understood as "...above that normal" without it being explicitly said. Just to give it some different taste, closer to what I meant.
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>Years ago, during one of my duels with Doug Dodge, he asked me a question phrased around "what do you do about..." and then commented my reply as "you're so self-centered, you had 'I' at least once in every sentence". Wouldn't happen in Serbian - I could have managed to pull a twice longer paragraph without ever mentioning myself and still speaking in first person. Not feasible in English (or Spanish, AFAIK) - can't avoid pronouns, articles, by lots.
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>Even AFAIK would be just KZ: "koliko znam" - [how much] [I know]. For actual Yoda-speak in Serbian, though, "at the same distance as the distance of my knowledge" would do fine :).

It's probably historical: some languages got used to hidden sense and implicit talk. I am not a linguistic expert, so I could be wrong, but it might be that Russian language is the most double-speak phenomenon in this area.