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Cloudcuckoolanguage
- 109 statements
- 19 feature instances
- 16 referencing feature instances
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Characters who are eccentric, nutty or mentally unhinged tend to demonstrate this in everything — including language. They often invent their own words or use the existing ones in strange ways, and employ peculiar syntax and grammar. From time to time, they may also use a Perfectly Cromulent Word. Compare with Buffy Speak. Examples |
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| Cloudcuckoolanguage | fetched |
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Dropped link to AvantasiaProtagAU: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
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Dropped link to BrutalHonesty: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to Kindergarten2017: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
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Dropped link to Samurai: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to TruthInTelevision: Not an Item - CAT | |
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Avantasia Protag AU / Fan Fic | |
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Kindergarten (2017) (Video Game) | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_11266e68 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_11266e68 | comment |
In David and Lisa, Lisa always speaks in rhyme as a manifestation of her mental illness. Her other personality, Muriel, doesn't speak at all, and communicates using notes. | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_11266e68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_11266e68 | featureConfidence |
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| David and Lisa | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_11266e68 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_2247a14a | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_2247a14a | comment |
In The Chronicles of Prydain, the eccentric princess Eilonwy has a tendency to use unusual similes and metaphors, such as "If you don't listen to what somebody tells you, it's like putting your fingers in your ears and jumping down a well". | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_2247a14a | featureApplicability |
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| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_2247a14a | featureConfidence |
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| The Chronicles of Prydain | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_2247a14a | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_43a9c333 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_43a9c333 | comment |
In Cowboy Bebop, the quirky hacker girl Edward "Radical Ed" Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV always refers to herself in the third person, often sings nursery rhymes and talks to herself out loud, and has many other peculiar speech mannerisms. | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_43a9c333 | featureApplicability |
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| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_43a9c333 | featureConfidence |
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| Cowboy Bebop | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_43a9c333 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_58fd69fb | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_58fd69fb | comment |
Megumi "Nodame" Noda from Nodame Cantabile frequently refers to herself in the third person as her preferred nickname Nodame and peppers her speech with nonsense words like "Gyabo" and "Mukya". | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_58fd69fb | featureApplicability |
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| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_58fd69fb | featureConfidence |
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| Nodame Cantabile (Manga) | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_58fd69fb | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_5a63b046 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_5a63b046 | comment |
In Leia, Princess of Alderaan, Leia's quirky Luna Lovegood-esque friend Amilyn Holdo tends to speak in riddles and strange metaphors, and Leia refers to it as "Holdo speak". For instance, she compares a double agent to a muffin whose two sides are covered with cream (a muffin always falls the cream side down, so if both sides are creamed, the muffin would just levitate; in the same way, a double agent would always have the upper hand regardless of which side wins). Another example is when Leia tells Amilyn that they need to make a detour in order to make their starship's course harder to track for the Imperials, and Holdo says "Mirrors bend light" in agreement. | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_5a63b046 | featureApplicability |
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| Leia, Princess of Alderaan | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_5a63b046 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_5fe8632b | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_5fe8632b | comment |
Hay Lin from W.I.T.C.H. tends to use the words "spacious" and "cosmic" as synonyms for "cool", and also sometimes invents her own words like "weirdific" and "rockalicious". | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_5fe8632b | featureApplicability |
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| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_5fe8632b | featureConfidence |
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| W.I.T.C.H. (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_5fe8632b | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_66abe7c6 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_66abe7c6 | comment |
In the Fate Series, the Mental Pollution trait is explicitly described this way. Servants with the trait cannot be understood (or influenced) by anybody who does not relate perfectly to their disturbed worldview. | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_66abe7c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_66abe7c6 | featureConfidence |
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| Fate Series (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_66abe7c6 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_7041cf12 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_7041cf12 | comment |
Tsubame is prone to taking in nonsensical memes and references when she gets emotional in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War. Onodera describes it to Ishigami (who is hopelessly out of date on slang as it is) as needing to feel what she's saying rather than actually understanding it. | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_7041cf12 | featureApplicability |
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| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_7041cf12 | featureConfidence |
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| Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga) | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_7041cf12 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_89578e4b | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_89578e4b | comment |
Molly Moon, Micky Minus, and the Mind Machine has Professor Selkeem, who, being extremely unhinged, frequently talks to himself, and speaks in riddles, rhymes and metaphors, also often inventing his own words. | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_89578e4b | featureApplicability |
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| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_89578e4b | featureConfidence |
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| Molly Moon | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_89578e4b | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_a62ee4d2 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_a62ee4d2 | comment |
Hinata from Haikyuu!! has a habit of describing things with sound effects, especially when he's excited. Other players occasionally do the same, such as Kageyama, Nishinoya when explaining receives, or Nekoma's Inuoka (leading to an excited and perfectly incomprehensible conversation between him and Hinata that consists almost solely of sound effects). | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_a62ee4d2 | featureApplicability |
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| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_a62ee4d2 | featureConfidence |
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| Haikyuu!! (Manga) | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_a62ee4d2 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_ac1e4f03 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_ac1e4f03 | comment |
Mizuki from DAYS is highly prone to explaining things using sound effects and, in fact, incapable of issuing or understanding normal explanations. He also includes words from foreign languages in his speech sometimes, usually thinking they mean something other than they actually mean. | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_ac1e4f03 | featureApplicability |
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| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_ac1e4f03 | featureConfidence |
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| DAYS (Manga) | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_ac1e4f03 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_acb92fd0 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_acb92fd0 | comment |
Father Fintan Fay, a recurring character in Father Ted, only ever speaks in hoots and grunts. Somehow, the other priests find this to be perfectly intelligible. | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_acb92fd0 | featureApplicability |
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| Father Ted | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_acb92fd0 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_b0fc9724 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_b0fc9724 | comment |
One "Celebrity Jeopardy" skit on Saturday Night Live has Anne Heche doing this. | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_b0fc9724 | featureApplicability |
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| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_b0fc9724 | featureConfidence |
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| Saturday Night Live | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_b0fc9724 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_b5bbed98 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_b5bbed98 | comment |
King Julien of Madagascar fame is a crazy, party-loving, self-obsessed lemur who has Malaproper tendencies. | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_b5bbed98 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_b5bbed98 | featureConfidence |
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| Madagascar | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_b5bbed98 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_c74a0802 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_c74a0802 | comment |
In Misery, the deranged former nurse Annie Wilkes swears very colorfully, using expressions like "You cockadoodie dirty birdie" and "I don't care if you're John Q. Jesus Johnnycake Christ from the planet Mars!". The protagonist calls these expressions "Wilkesisms". | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_c74a0802 | featureApplicability |
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| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_c74a0802 | featureConfidence |
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| Misery | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_c74a0802 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_d7c4626a | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_d7c4626a | comment |
Delirium in The Sandman (1989) tends to do this occasionally — which makes sense, since she's basically the personification of being a Cloudcuckoolander. | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_d7c4626a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_d7c4626a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Sandman (1989) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_d7c4626a | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_d97e4fa5 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_d97e4fa5 | comment |
Ensemble Stars! is filled with Cloudcuckoolanders, and also features a lot of characters with strange speaking styles in one way or another: The best example is probably Kanata, who speaks entirely in hiragana, uses a tilde ~ at the end of most sentences, and uses a lot of onomatopoeia, most notably "puka puka" (meaning roughly "bubble bubble"). Altogether, it portrays a relaxed, childish speaking style. Natsume's speech is even weirder — occasionally he'll speak in an entirely different font, which is referred to as "magic language", and which is almost invariably Brutal Honesty. He also usually speaks the last syllable of each sentence with katakana, though what this means is not at all clear. Leo also speaks in a very whimsical way, greeting people with "uchuu!", which literally just means "space". (Though it sounds a bit similar to "chu", which is the onomatopoeia for kissing, so it sounds much less strange in Japanese than English.) There are also a lot of characters which aren't as strange as the 5 Oddballs (and Leo, often noted to practically be one), but who do have very intense quirks that impact their speaking styles — for example, Souma is such a Samurai fan that he speaks in an extremely old-fashioned language, often using long-outdated sayings, and never uses the more modern katakana even when speaking loanwords, which implies a difficulty pronouncing non-Japanese words. |
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| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_d97e4fa5 | featureApplicability |
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| Ensemble Stars! (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_d97e4fa5 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_edc8c9a4 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_edc8c9a4 | comment |
In Pelagia and the Red Rooster, the eccentric rabbi Emmanuel is noted to have very quirky speech patterns: | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_edc8c9a4 | featureApplicability |
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| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_edc8c9a4 | featureConfidence |
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| Sister Pelagia | hasFeature |
Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_edc8c9a4 | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_f3c92203 | type |
Cloudcuckoolanguage | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_f3c92203 | comment |
The Cat Who... Series: Book #1 (The Cat Who Could Read Backwards) has Nino, for whom this is Lampshaded: "He even speaks a language of his own, but we don't expect conformity of a genius, do we?" | |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage / int_f3c92203 | featureApplicability |
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| The Cat Who... Series | hasFeature |
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