Can you invert sentence structure without sounding like Yoda?

Question

I've heard that you can invert the sentence structure, as shown in the following examples, in order to emphasize an adverb, prepositional phrase et.c.

-- Wie ist er?
-- Wunderschön ist er.

-- Wohin geht ihr?
-- Ins Kino gehen wir.

-- Was hast du gemacht?
-- Gejoggt bin ich.

To me, a non-native speaker, it sounds weird. Can you say or write like this seriously, without people believing that you are imitating Yoda?

Answer 1

As thei in his comment has already pointed out, the German Yoda-style talking is achieved by putting the predicate into a wrong position (at the end of the sentence).

As long as you keep the predicate in the right place, you can move around most of the other parts as you wish. It does change the emphasizing (that's why it might sound strange), but it isn't wrong.

In poetry, however, the "yoda style" (which is called hyperbaton, according to RegDwight) used quite frequently:

Die Jahre wie die Wolken gehn

Und lassen mich hier einsam stehn

(instead of "Die Jahre gehn wie die Wolken...")

It doesn't sound too elegant even there, though. More like forcing it into the meter. ;)

Answer 2

All these examples are absolutely correct, but they convey to me a situation where you have asked several times (misheard or unbelieving) and the answers are:

Ins KINO gehen wir! (Hörst du schlecht?)