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When a character in a certain profession isn't on the job, they're going to still use jargon from that profession, basically to let us know what they do for a living. Mafia guys will use "whacked" and the like, chefs will use culinary language, and so forth. Contrast with Spy Speak. TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary could be considered a subtrope. Compare Job Mindset Inertia. |
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Kaede Akamatsu in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony often reflects on pieces of classical music to describe her mood or situations in which they could be fitting, as per her talent of the Ultimate Pianist. | |
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In Ranma ½, professional chef Ukyo Kuonji uses — in the English version — "sugar", "honey", and other food names as intimacy markers. Not a very noticeable trait, but the fact remains that she (almost) never used "dear" or other such markers. In Portuguese, she used "Você tá frito comigo" once - this would literally mean "You're fried with (by fighting against) me". "You're toast!" would be a more natural (thus better) translation, though. |
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Sometimes happens in Bones. It’s not unknown for Brennan to bring up anthropological explanations for things even when she isn’t working. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: Hoshi is a linguist, and in "Two Days and Two Nights", she uses "learned several new conjugations" as a jokey Unusual Euphemism for a one-night stand. | |
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Doctor Hourani, in House, does this in a hospital and to a co-worker (namely, well, House). Instead of saying "I must be crazy" or "I must be hallucinating", he says "I must be having a complex partial seizure...". | |
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The Simpsons: The Mafia men embody this trope. Fat Tony goes so far as to say his wife was "whacked by natural causes". There is also a subversion in the same episode, as Tony asks Legs to "hot-sync" his PalmPilot, and Legs thinks he meant to shoot it. And the Sea Captain puts everything into nautical terms. Principal Skinner often uses school lingo and expects others to apply elementary school moral standards even when he's not at work. |
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Hermes from Octopath Traveler II is a slight variation. She's a dancer who hails from the port town of Canalbrine, so she often sprinkles water-related phrases in her dialogue, such as calling her audience "little fishies" and saying that dancing is like swimming in an ocean. | |
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In The Fifth Elephant, we're told that Commander Vimes studies geography as though it were a crime scene ("Would you recognise that glacier if you saw it again?") Mostly though, he talks to people as though he was conducting an investigation because he always is. Even off-duty Assassins will talk about inhumation rather than murder. |
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Corpse Bride: The town crier still prefixes all of his speech with "Hear ye, hear ye!" even when off duty. | |
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Ghosts (UK): The Captain uses military terminology to describe everyday activities, even long after his death and return as a housebound ghost. | |
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The Big Bang Theory gang always manages to work scientific metaphors into life, to the constant frustration of the token cast member of normal intellect, Penny. One notable one is Schrödinger's Cat, which becomes a recurring theme and is the only scientific principle Penny can ever remember. | |
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In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Ronnie Raymond is a chemistry teacher who uses sports lingo in his classes, greatly confusing the students. | |
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Pick an xkcd strip. If it's not part of the joke, odds are Randall is doing it without fully realizing. | |
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Cilan in Pokémon the Series: Black & White uses culinary lingo in other, unrelated contexts pretty much every episode he's in. While he is a chef, his main profession is Pokémon Connoisseur, which means he basically does this for a living. | |
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Aoi Asahina tends to spout inspirational quotes from famous athletes that she has memorized for the sake of her training. It's revealed in a Free-Time Event that she joined six athletics clubs in her last school and swimming just so happened to stand out as the talent that got her scholarship into Hope's Peak. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Played for gross-out laughs in one episode. A surgeon eating lunch refers to cutting his food as a "lateral incision", which disgusts Jake Sisko so much that he runs out of the room, thinking he's going to throw up. Luckily, though, he doesn't. | |
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In the first episode of The Troop, a student's vocational test suggested he'd become an accountant. The student used accounting terms while voicing his objections to this. | |
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Batman: The Trigger Twins talk almost exclusively like characters from a Western movie. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Miss Brooks discusses grammar and parts of speech on and off the job. | |
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In The Land of Green Ginger, Sinbad the Sailor ("Son of the Sinbad!") talks largely in nautical clichés, to the point that the reader (who first encounters him sailing a small boat on a calm river) may well doubt his authenticity. | |
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In Forced Perspectives by Tim Powers, the villain has a computer science background, as do some of his underlings, and they use computer networking metaphors to describe the psychic phenomena their plot revolves around. It's also used as a generational indicator: the members of the plot from the 1960s that he's attempting to revive used a telephone switchboard analogy to describe the same phenomena, while his Gen Z nieces use a metaphor about smartphone apps. | |
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Superman: In the Superman: Man of Steel Annual #5, (apart of the Legends of the Dead Earth event) the main character comes from an ocean planet, where he's a fisherman. Once he develops Superman-powers and starts flying through space and destroying Imperial starships single-handedly, he refers to himself as a minnow overpowering sharks. | |
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Danganronpa: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Aoi Asahina tends to spout inspirational quotes from famous athletes that she has memorized for the sake of her training. It's revealed in a Free-Time Event that she joined six athletics clubs in her last school and swimming just so happened to stand out as the talent that got her scholarship into Hope's Peak. Kazuichi Soda in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair often refers to being excited as "engines revving!" as if to refer to his talent as the Ultimate Mechanic. Kaede Akamatsu in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony often reflects on pieces of classical music to describe her mood or situations in which they could be fitting, as per her talent of the Ultimate Pianist. Sometimes happens when a student initiates a Rebuttal Showdown in 2 or V3 (the minigame doesn't exist in 1). For example, Ultimate Photographer Mahiru Koizumi declares "Your reasoning is out of focus!" |
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Siuan Sanche in The Wheel of Time grew up a fisherwoman before becoming Aes Sedai, so she always uses fishing jargon and metaphors. Perrin is the same with blacksmith lingo. | |
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The Subway Masters, Ingo and Emmet, in Pokémon Black and White constantly speak in train-related phrases, such as their pre-battle dialogue always including "All aboard!" This is so ingrained into their personalities that when Ingo got Laser-Guided Amnesia and ended up in Hisui, he still spoke like this despite forgetting that he was once one of the heads of the Battle Subway. | |
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This is rather endemic in Wakfu. Amalia uses metaphors and expressions based on plants all the time (later episodes show us that most Sadida do the same). Likewise, Ruel's speech often alludes to money or wealth. Minor characters are also on it; Xav the Baker and his father Ratafouine are constantly referencing bread and baking. Even Nox isn't above making a few clocks or time-related quips. | |
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Tyranno in the English dub of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX refers to his friends by army ranks, the school as a base of operations, and his dorm room as HQ. He also uses military slang at every opportunity. (In the original Japanese, he was a dinosaur-themed duelist with a Verbal Tic). | |
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Sanji of One Piece frequently uses allusions to food when he's calling his attacks. This is more obvious in the English dub, but the Japanese has a few food phrases too. | |
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Hermes Conrad of Futurama infuses his everyday language with references to bureaucracy. He also throws in semi-fabricated Jamaican idioms. | |
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Nate Logan from the SSX series, a cornfed ranch hand from Colorado, often says things like "Durn horse threw a shoe!" after a wipeout. | |
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Lampshaded and deconstructed in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Flint's father Tim is a fisherman, and he tries to use fishing metaphors when speaking to him, which Flint doesn't understand. This is both a cause of, and contributer to, their emotionally distant relationship, until Flint finds a way to get around it. | |
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In Spin City, after it's revealed that one of the mayor's associates is, in fact, a mafioso, he mentions that he first suspected something when said associate invited the mayor to go fishing with, "Let's go whack some fish." | |
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Kazuichi Soda in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair often refers to being excited as "engines revving!" as if to refer to his talent as the Ultimate Mechanic. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Many examples, mostly from Applejack. As a farm pony, she frequently uses farming-themed similes and metaphors, many of which involve apples; in "The Cutie Map Part 2", she calls them "countryisms", and there appears to be a connection between her ability to make "countryisms" and her other farming talents, since she loses her ability to talk like that when her cutie mark's taken away. | |
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The Wire: A gangbanger talks on the phone about "capping his dawg's ass". The police bring him in on murder charges, only to realize that he was talking about putting down an actual dog. When Professional Killer Snoop is in the market for a nail gun, she's confused about what she should buy until the salesman starts using firearms terms like "caliber" to describe a model. She perks up and exchanges lingo with the salesman before handing him a wad of bills. When Chris asks what she bought, she rattles off the nail gun's attributes as if it's some kind of badass machinegun. |
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One of the sample characters in Discworld Roleplaying Game is Hunchsides Modoscousin, who has his cousin Modo, the gardener at Unseen University, as a Contact who can supply him with information about UU. He's listed as "somewhat reliable", which means that on a critical failure, his info is simply untrue; in Modo's case this isn't due to deliberate lying but "misleading gardening jargon". | |
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In Season 19 of The Amazing Race, former NFL player Marcus could always be counted on to pull out a football metaphor. | |
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Falkner and his father Walker in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, both of which are Flying-type Gym Leaders who use mainly avian Pokémon, are rather fond of using figures of speech involving birds (adapted to Pokémon) such as "Don't count your Pidgeys before they hatch" or "Early Spearow gets the Caterpie". | |
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Used as a plot point in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three remake: Garber hypothesizes Ryder must have worked in Wall Street since he's constantly framing the hostage situation and the money exchange in financial terms ("commodities", "futures contract", "spot trade", etc). Not only is Garber right, but Ryder's goal isn't taking the ransom money itself but profiting from the market crash caused by the suspicions of terrorism behind the hijacking. | |
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Homestar Runner: Prior to his Flanderization into creepiness incarnate, Coach Z would overuse sports metaphors to the point that other characters started calling him out on it. From "The Best Decemberween Ever": Later inverted in "No Hands On Deck!" Bubs suggests that once Homestar's deck is complete, they can hang out on it drinking melonade. |
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Tom Tucker in Family Guy still speaks like a news reporter even while not reporting the news. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: While the doctor doesn't usually do this, in "Body and Soul", he mentions a man who kissed him "using his face as a tongue depressor". B'Elanna Torres is an engineer, and again she doesn't normally talk this way, but in "Lineage", she makes an analogy by comparing genetic engineering (which she wanted to do to her and Tom Paris's unborn daughter) to using tools to fix a machine. |
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In Hank Zipzer, Hank's father Stan is a sports journalist and tends to express everything in terms of sports metaphors. | |
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In the Sgt. Frog manga (at least in the English version), Keroro refers to Aki Hinata as "General Mom" frequently in early chapters. | |
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Near the end of an episode of The Sopranos, Tony tells a guy that a job might involve "getting messy. Real wet work." The FBI agents listening prick up their ears, only to realize a few seconds later he's asking someone to fix his burst water heater. | |
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Dr. Minoru Kamiya has a penchant for this in YuYu Hakusho - In English, he says "Pronounced dead!" when attacking Yusuke from behind. In Portuguese, during the fight with Yusuke, he says "Não vou usar nenhum instrumento para te fazer uma autópsia!" - In English, "I will use no instruments to dissect you!". | |
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Minilife TV: In "The Party (Season Finale)", the announcer of the 28th Legondo World Martial Arts Tournament prefaces his complaint about losing a game of Never Have I Ever with "ladies and gentlemen" as he does when announcing the fights. | |
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Deadpool: Supporting character Fenway manages to work a baseball metaphor into practically every sentence. | |
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