The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date. - Jasper Fforde

"Tell them ballocks."
"They'll pay me five hundred guineas."
"Cancel the ballocks thing—tell them you'll be honored and overjoyed."
"It's a sellout. I don't do sellouts. Not for that price anyway."

To a text-based life-form, unpredictable syntax and poor grammar is a source of huge discomfort. Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can’t walk to the bathroom. Poor syntax is even worse. Change word order and a sentence useless for anyone Yoda except you have.

"I always really admired you growing up. Always smiling through your unhappiness. A real inspiration."
"I wasn't unhappy."
"You looked unhappy."
"Looks can be deceptive."
"All too true," she said, "but I meant what I said: inspirational in a sort of tragic way, like you were the failure in the family, but always looked on the bright side of everything."
"You're very kind," I said, long used to Megan's ways, "but it could have been much worse: I could have been born without tact or empathy, and be shallow, self-absorbed and hideously patronizing."