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Delusions of Eloquence occur when a person tries too hard to sound "educated" by using Big Words or carefully chosen phrases, but gets it wrong, filling their dialogue with malapropisms, mispronunciations, and mangled grammar. The result is that they sound less educated and at the same time a pompous and pretentious attention seeker. In fiction, this habit can be used to set up a character as a stuffed shirt who demands respect but is mocked behind his back or to add charm or humor to a character who would otherwise seem a little flat. Unfortunately, it is sometimes a case of Truth in Television, as there really are people who do this. Note, this trope works better in print. Characters with Delusions of Eloquence are really funny in the comics, where you can look at the talk bubbles and see, in black and white, what they are doing to our mother tongue. In a film, they just come across as two mooks who talk too much. ("Low-rent thugs with delusions of eloquence," as Hartigan puts it). This delusion is often associated with a Know-Nothing Know-It-All or Fake Brits. A character using familiar words but pronouncing them fancily is giving them Pretentious Pronunciation. Compare Buffy Speak, where the ideas may be legitimately sophisticated, but the speaker lacks the ability to properly articulate them, Malaproper, where the character may misuse words completely by accident, Meaningless Meaningful Words, when they attempt to sound deep and profound but instead regurgitate flowery word salad nonsense (while also being likely to perceive other examples of this as profound), and Technobabble, where the words may have no meaning at all. Contrast Spock Speak and Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, where the big words and proper grammar are used correctly, but for differing reasons. See also You Keep Using That Word, for when a character calls out another for misusing a word. When used in written media, this can overlap with Rouge Angles of Satin. When intentionally used for humour, may be an Expospeak Gag. And finally, contrast Sophisticated as Hell, where the user combines more down-to-earth language with Big Words. No Real Life Examples, Please! This exists, but this site does not seek to be judgmental and insulting towards people. |
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Adventure Time: Tiffany Oiler is a hot-headed goblin boy prone to making rambling, flowerly monologues full of convoluted metaphors that ultimately don't mean anything. "One Last Job" shows he even has to write them down so he doesn't forget the words. | |
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On Desperate Housewives: | |
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Dragon Quest VIII has Yangus, who while mostly being a lower-class Boisterous Bruiser, occasionally tries to mix in words of more than 2 syllables...and always, ALWAYS screws them up. How hard is it to say 'specific,' man?! | |
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Ranma ½: Tatewaki Kun�. "The vengeance of heaven is slow but sure...". One of his least head-aching speeches. | |
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Ravenor has the rogue trader Sholto Unwerth, whose mangling of the English language must be seen to be believed. | |
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Dogberry in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is something of a cross between this and the Malaproper: | |
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Bottom from A Midsummer Night's Dream also makes a habit of this. | |
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Another '50s example is the musical and movie Kiss Me, Kate, the plot of which concerns a production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Two mooks show up at the theater to make sure the leading man pays his gambling debts. They get to strut their stuff in the classic comic song, "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." The mooks can almost steal the show this way if they can play their respective mob stereotypes (the stocky, verbose fellow with an exaggerated accent, and the skinny old guy with the Marlon-Brando-impersonator's voice) completely and hilariously straight, even while singing. |
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One of the running gags on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is Charlie's tendency to slip into this mode whenever he tries to impress people. One of the most memorable happens when he receives advice on how to talk to a beautiful woman. | |
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Mrs. Slocombe of Are You Being Served? was frequently prone to this, including in one of her catchphrases ("And I am unanimous in that"). | |
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The police version is displayed by Dave, a police officer in Parks and Recreation, especially in his second appearance on the show. His "talking head" segments are delivered like police reports, and in general, he has a tendency toward malapropisms and using Perfectly Cromulent Word(s). | |
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Abercrombie Fizzwidget from Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando. It turns out that he does this because he's actually dim-witted Captain Qwark in disguise. The real Fizzwidget speaks normally. | |
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Marcus from 1/0 suffers from the tendency, but loses it after his Epiphany Therapy. | |
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The Locals: The Bogan Nev tells Paul that the girls he is trying to hook up with are dead, and that they call that "haemophilia". His mate Tone hurriedly whispers that the word is "necrophilia". | |
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What a Carve Up!: Working in the publishing industry — albeit as a proofreader of lurid horror novels—Ernie has an overinflated opinion of his level of culture and education. Best demonstrated when he explains the vital importance of his job as proofreader while completely mangling the grammar of the sentence. The bemused look on Syd's face is something to behold. | |
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In Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, one of the Cipher Mooks regularly spouts nonsense statistics. This often works on his companion, though he's left with a vague suspicion that he's being tricked. | |
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Maliwan-made guns in Borderlands 2 are always titled like this. This, in addition to their looks and the fact that they shoot anything except bullets, reinforces the impression that Maliwan is ruled by a bunch of hipsters. | |
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Osric, the foppish, social-climbing courtier in Hamlet also thinks he's a brilliant phrase-maker. He isn't. | |
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In Les Misérables, the villainous Thenardier is a frequent example of this. He speaks and writes in a flowery manner that gives him the air of a philosopher/intellectual, but his writing is filled with misspellings, and Hugo comments to the effect that his obsession with Big Words shows a stupid person's understanding of what a smart person sounds like. Thenardier also frequently defends arguments by fraudulent citations of famous people, but has no actual knowledge of those authorities, except that they are famous (e.g. he will cite to the novels of someone who only wrote poetry). His wife also demonstrates this through the odd names she gave to her daughters, taken from romantic novels. This choice is very similar to the idea underlying a Ghetto Name. | |
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In The Merchant of Venice, Launcelot Gobbo and his father Old Gobbo: | |
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Gob of Arrested Development has not mastered either the meaning or pronunciation of "circumvent" (once pronouncing it "cir-sum-vrent"). He does not fare any better with "consummate" either. | |
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In Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Bridget tries to start off her interview with Colin Firth by asking him about a movie of his that isn't Pride and Prejudice, and comes up with: "Do you think the book of Fever Pitch has spored a confessional gender?" (She was supposed to ask him if it had "spawned a confessional genre," but had heard the phrase wrong.) He struggles to come up with a reasonable answer to this nonsensical question. | |
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SCP -2557, a Holding of Envelope Logistics® features this testimonial from an extradimensional entity attempting to speak English: | |
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Lord Rugdumph gro-Shurgak in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. He manages to work about three malapropisms into every sentence. He wishes you to exterminize some ogres, who have abjected his daughter. Should you do so, he will grant you a sword that has been passed in his family for many generators. This sword has the effects of temporarily decreasing the victim's Speechcraft skill and applying a Silence effect, by the way. |
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Discworld: Colon and Nobby tend to slip into this when no one else is around. Particularly noticeable in Thud! Ridcully, who has no patience for terminology, never lets nitpicking slow him down: thus the space-time continuinuinuum. |
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As does Daffy Duck, when contemplating "self-preservatiomunum...munum". THAT, sir, is an inmitigated frabrication! |
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A sketch in The Benny Hill Show has Benny, playing a French film director, being interviewed by Henry McGee, who is not as fluent in French as he thinks: | |
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Octagon Vreedle of Ben 10: Alien Force is a Half-Witted Hillbilly who tries to make himself look smarter than he is by speaking in long, elaborate sentences full of big words he barely understands, used in the most teeth-grindingly uncanny way possible and made even more conspicuous by his seeming inability to use a noun in a sentence without preceding it with the phrase "what you might call". | |
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G(a)linda and Madame Morrible of Wicked are both prone to this. Specifically, they tend to tack extraneous or just plain wrong suffixes onto otherwise serviceable words. Since they typically do it when speaking to people of lower class than themselves, it's possible they know it's wrong but think their audience will be impressed anyway. Actually, according to the companion book The Grimmerie, this is simply Ozian English, dialectically speaking. |
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In Homestuck, uu has a tendency to occasionally use phrases he doesn't actually understand in an attempt to make himself look more intimidating, such as here: | |
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Torq, the 3/4ths Orc from the Critical Hit Podcast often tries too hard when he tries to repeat things the smarter characters say. | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: The head weasel talks like this. Saying things like "Do you want us to disresemble the place?" and offering to "repose" of Roger. | |
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Augustus and Hazel from The Fault in Our Stars are borderline cases—they get some of their longer and/or rarer and/or archaic words right and then misuse "transmit" or "soliloquy", for just two examples. | |
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Green Lantern: Larfleeze, largely because he's a Psychopathic Manchild who's Really 700 Years Old. | |
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This was the schtick of Maple LaMarsh on Remember WENN. | |
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In Book 2 of The Order of the Stick, Quirky Bard Elan decides to become a wizard. He does this by donning a wizard rope, wielding a staff with an 8-ball, and attempting to replicate the speech patterns of the party's wizard Vaarsuvius. This trope is what results. | |
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91:an Karlsson: The Tofta gang's leader Berra tends to overestimate his smarts. For instance, has tried to declare himself a genius using the term "genialisk" only to pronounce it as "genitalisk" ("genital") several times. | |
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In the Danish comedy play Erasmus Montanus, the village Know-Nothing Know-It-All speaks Schlubb And Klump Latin, with a good dose of Canis Latinicus mixed in with occasionally correct words. The main character (a pompous and over-educated Stranger in a Familiar Land come home to visit his parents) tries to call him on it, only to fail because the villagers don't speak a word of the language anyway and find the conman's gibberish more convincing. | |
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Dragon Quest V: Tuppence fancies himself a refined ladies man, but he cannot help misusing words every time he tries to woo a woman. | |
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After you beat up some common thugs in one part of Devil Survivor 2, Commander Hotsuin shows up and asks if it's fun playing with imbeciles. The beaten thug replies, "You're an umbilical!" | |
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Sin City has the former (and, in a roundabout way, current) trope namers Shlubb and Klump. What can you say about people who render "circumnavigation" as "circumlocution" (when talking about driving around the block, yet!) or "quenched" as "quelched" or refer to "Consequences most dire" being "athwart us" or... you get the picture. | |
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Pugsy from Fangface is an example of both this and Malaproper. | |
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The Detroit 1-8-7 episode "Beaten/ Cover Letter" featured a boxer's manager who spoke like this— and a detective who mocked him for it. | |
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In BanG Dream!, Kaoru constantly tries to sound like an eloquent, insightful, sophisticated princely type, complete with constant references to The Great Bard. It works... on her fangirls, anyway. Anyone who spends more than five minutes in her presence, however, realises very quickly that nothing she says actually makes a lick of sense. In particular, she overuses the word 'fleeting' to the point that nobody can figure out what she's trying to mean by it. | |
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Donny, the sign-in guy from You Don't Know Jack 2011, especially when you ask him to explain the rules. Which means that any question written by him in the game proper is going to be... tricky. | |
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Although Early Cuyler from Squidbillies is not trying to sound intelligent, he mispronuncitates and adds sylabbizanation to almost every word over three syllables because he is a hillbilly stereoishtypery. | |
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Super Mario Bros. (1993) has henchmen Iggy and Spike use this after they've been evolved into an "advanced" form, showing that even with enhanced intelligence, they're still pretty dumb. | |
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As well as Twelfth Night's Sir Andrew Aguecheek: | |
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Barnum from Fable II, who learned his "ridiculousitous" vocabulary from a dodgy thesaurus he purchased. From a merchant in the beginning of the game who speaks in much the same manner. |
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And Nurse from Romeo and Juliet. Even Benvolio lampshades it. | |
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Lucullan from Empire does this often. | |
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The Boxtrolls: Archibald Snatcher desperately wants to be part of posh, elegant high society and apes it at every opportunity, but he doesn't really understand any of the social trappings he aspires to. He tries to say elegant things about the taste of fancy cheeses, but can't come up with anything himself and is only able to belatedly agree with Mr. Trout's more poetic description; in the climax, he repeats this word-for-word even though he's eating an entirely different cheese that that's not an accurate evaluation of. He also has no patience for ceremony, and angrily cuts off Lord Portley-Rind's introduction of the cheese they're about to taste so that he can get to the eating. | |
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Michael Scott of The Office (US) is likely to use several of those every time he speaks. And when he "improvs conversation" as he puts it, expect him to confuse everyone including himself, leading to a metaphorgotten. |
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Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals was a famous example, and inspired the coining of the term "malapropism": | |
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Anansi Boys: The Bad Boss and one of the major villains of the piece, Grahame Coates, uses Malapropisms, Meaningless Meaningful Words, Ice Cream Koans and the like constantly because he thinks it makes him seem more intellectual and approachable. All it really does, though, is emphasize the fact that he's a spiteful little weasel. At the end, Tiger gets fed up with this and just eats him. | |
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"Throwing Off Glass" by The Tragically Hip describes a character (implicitly the narrator's daughter) who has the tendency to overuse words she likes the sound of. In a twist on this trope, the narrator seems rather charmed by this habit, as the ambiguous wording of the lyric suggests that her love of new words adds some enchantment to the world. | |
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Bugs Bunny occasionally indulges in this "stragedy", particularly when confronted with a "huge Frankincense monster" that means to render him "non compus mentus". As does Daffy Duck, when contemplating "self-preservatiomunum...munum". THAT, sir, is an inmitigated frabrication! |
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Glass Onion: The brilliant but erratic tech innovator Miles Bron's language is peppered with plausible but nonexistent words and ones that aren't quite correct. In fact, it's plot-relevant; as it turns out, Miles is just an idiot who steals other people's ideas. | |
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Whotrek The Ultimate Adventure 1 sees this be the case for “the ergo guy in the room with screens who talks a lot and I don't like him�note a rather bizarre take on the Architect, who acts as a Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, but all his grandiose words are used in completely nonsensical manners, making it all but impossible to understand anything he says. | |
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An episode of M*A*S*H has Radar taking a correspondence course in creative writing. The episode consists mainly of him writing the daily reports like a bad novel, in the process angering Colonel Potter. | |
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In one episode of Boy Meets World, Eric gets a word-a-day calendar to improve his vocabulary and he tries to use these words in conversation but repeatedly fails at it. By the end of the episode, he gets the hang of it but annoys everybody by using big words in mundane conversation. | |
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Blob from The Dreamstone has bouts of this, particularly when trying to sound authoritative. | |
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Sexy Beast: Don Logan likes to think he's smarter than the protagonists, but his rapid-fire speech is half Cluster F-Bomb and half this, with needless extra words and non-words ("insinuendos") everywhere. | |
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Lukan the Witless in Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura. He's convinced that "witless" is a synonym for "humorless." Appropriately, his and his henchmen's Beef Gate status can be circumvented with a single point in Persuasion. "Who am I? Who am I? Lukan! Lukan the Witless! Where I go, the masses quabble in perturbisiveness and trepidunction!" |
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Chicken from Cow and Chicken uses large words at times (largely incorrectly) to sound smarter than he really is. Thing of it is... it actually works, but only because the people with whom he lives and interacts are complete morons. | |
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Angelica from Rugrats does this sometimes, more so than most of the other characters. They're all babies and toddlers, so using the wrong words is a common thing, but she is the only one who typically tries to brag and sound smarter than she actually is. | |
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Futurama Joey Mousepad of the Robot Mafia. Zapp Brannigan is also prone to this, like the time he offered Leela some "cham-paggin". There's also this exchange from "The Problem with Popplers": |
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Shirong in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness is called out on this by his son Shifu: | |
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Dregs: Baron von Willendorfer never uses a two-syllable word where a five-syllable word could be used instead. He also thinks "misunderestimate" is a real word. | |
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In Trailer Park Boys, most of Ricky's Malapropers have no such delusions, but he will occasionally try to use fancy terms which inevitably fall into this trope. | |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, Narses has these and uses "words" such as "impudential," "stylacefully" and "idiosynculiar." | |
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Matt and Tai in Digimon Adventure tri. Abridged do this whenever they get into an argument, which their friends lampshade. The only way to stop them is to use equally complex words to tell them to knock it off. | |
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(Zigzagged) Shlubb and Klump French: Perceval and Karadoc from Kaamelott. While they occasionally play the trope straight, most of their word-based humor comes from them having no clue what some relatively complex words mean, and they don't attempt to use it. Then there's the "secret technique" that resulted in Memetic Mutation: "c'est pas faux" (translating to "that's not wrong" or "yeah, I guess"), which allows the user to mask his ignorance in a conversation. One minor character inverts this, as he can't remember the "big words", and of course serves as messenger between Lancelot's rebels and Arthur. He memorably turned "The king sends an ultimatum" into "The king sends a nutritionist". |
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Qui the Promoter from Jade Empire, an NPC at the Imperial Arena who tries to impress others by (ab)using big words. At one point, if you complain about this, he retorts with "Everything I say is perfectly cromulent, and it might do you well to embiggen your vocabulary before you fling accretions in my discretion." | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Invoked in-universe in the comic for 2011-07-03 together with Perfectly Cromulent Word, when a high school teacher sets up a fake thesaurus website to punish her students for thesaurus overuse. Unfortunately, they all start to speak in the language she accidentally invented, and it quickly goes downhill when prospective colleges begin "anti-yesing" their "applicatrices." | |
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Animal House: Eric Stratton is trying to impress an older woman (who turns out to be the wife of the college's Dean) in the grocery store, as he picks up a large cucumber: Oddly enough (or a shockingly subtle joke for that film), Mrs. Wormer may be wrong: "sensual" vs. "sensuous". |
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The Binder of Shame features Biff Bam, a guy with "a habit of randomly mispronouncing things in ways that made little or no sense at all". The resulting Funetik Aksent has the mispronunciations capitalised so they're not mistaken for typos. | |
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The In Living Color! sketch character, Oswald Bates, is an inmate who delivers self-educated political ramblings. The humor is based on his misuse of vocabulary, and anatomical terms in particular. | |
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El Goonish Shive came close to delusory eloquence in its early days. The author himself admits that he actually spoke like that in those days. The scripting has undergone major improvements since. | |
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One of the Kirgard Commandos in Exit Fate is clearly trying for Talks Like a Simile. Instead, he constantly forgets where he's going with them, resulting in a bad case of this that usually confuses listeners into Visible Silence. He always assumes they're just crushed by his devastating insults. | |
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Sabalom Glitz, Doctor Who's very own Honest John's Dealership who appears in the serials "Trial of a Time Lord" and "Dragonfire", tends to drift into this when attempting to convince others of his intelligence and sophistication. | |
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Up: Alpha tends to do this, intentionally using more "educated" language over the other dogs despite being just as much of a, well, dog. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus mines comedy by portraying Australian attempts to be erudite, indulging in the English stereotype that Australians are uncultured boors. The "Bruces" sketch is about the philosophy department at the fictional University of Woolloomooloo, where all the professors are ockers named Bruce who fixate on getting drunk. "Australian Table Wines" is a high-class discussion of various Australian wines. One is said to "really open up the sluices at both ends" and another "should be used only for hand-to-hand combat." Also a common tendency of Eric Praline, viz. the man what purchased the dead parrot. |
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Phil Harris did this all the time on The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. | |
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In seminar, Douglas often comes off this way, especially in his opening speech. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: Stefano claims that he wants to "facilitate and remain observatory" while working for Uncle Monty. | |
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In the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Mirror, Mirror, On the Ed", Eddy indulges in this while doing an impression of Edd. | |
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OMORI has a pompous slob known only as "Creepy Guy" who attempts Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness but uses most of his big words incorrectly. | |
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Cabin Pressure: Arthur whenever he's in Steward Mode combines this and Department of Redundancy Department, often overdoing the simplest of announcements in an attempt to sound smart. | |
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Constance Verity Saves the World: While waiting for Byron, Connie finds a mobster who thinks she stole his diamonds rummaging through her cabinets. When he tries to hold a "civil" conversation, she gives out a groan that he's "one of those verbose, civilized gangsters" that "loves his own voice and likes to talk around his actual threats." | |
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Being There: Chance the Gardener is a man with mild mental delays who can't take care of himself, but he's dressed so well everyone assumes he's rich and thinks everything he says is a profound statement. Subverted in that Chance himself was just responding in the only way he knew how. | |
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The "Ungroundable" episode of South Park had all the "cool" kids at school jumping on the Twilight bandwagon and pretending to be vampires. One of the "vampires" is a snobby preppy in a Classical Movie Vampire cape who repeatedly misuses the phrase "per se", just to sound important. | |
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How NOT to Write a Novel starts its section on wording and phrasing with first "The Puffer Fish", described as "Wherein the author flaunts his vocabulary", but then goes into "The Crepuscular Handbag", described as "Wherein the author flaunts someone else's vocabulary". The example passage is a rape scene that's made difficult to take seriously by misusing a word every other sentence; for example, it describes the villain slavering a drug into a drink, ululating under his breath, whickering a cruel joke, and vacating in his victim. | |
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Dragon Quest: Dragon Quest V: Tuppence fancies himself a refined ladies man, but he cannot help misusing words every time he tries to woo a woman. Dragon Quest VIII has Yangus, who while mostly being a lower-class Boisterous Bruiser, occasionally tries to mix in words of more than 2 syllables...and always, ALWAYS screws them up. How hard is it to say 'specific,' man?! |
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My Fair Lady essentially starts with Professor Henry Higgins casually wagering that although his peers believe in this trope, he can overcome it and teach a commoner to blend in with the British upper class. The rest of the movie is essentially an elaborate socialite training montage for Eliza Doolittle, and this trope happens multiple times before he can teach her to surpass it. | |
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The K'tang of Star Control 3 use words like Crushify and Destructimate rather often. They also react very badly if you point this out. Of course, they react badly no matter what you do. They really really like to crushify. | |
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Imperial Pimpotron Alpha from Empowered, who could give Marcus a run for his money. It seems that his speech derives from We Will Use WikiWords in the Future, which results in some weird neologisms: | |
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Firefly: The scene from the bar in the "Train Job" episode? ("This is a most... Ass-picious day!") | |
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Owl in Winnie the Pooh is rather like this; he's supposed to be what a young child would think sounds educated. | |
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Hey Arnold!: Coach Wittenberg is made of this trope, such as the time he refers to synchronized swimming as "circumcised swimming". Discussed in the episode "Mr. Green Runs", in which Mr. Green engages in a debate as part of the city council election, and tries to use big, complicated words to sound smarter and gain an advantage over his incumbent opponent. It doesn't work, with the audience only getting confused and angry. Arnold convinces him to instead use much more relatable vocabulary for the next question; he switches to using meat and butcher metaphors (as a butcher himself) that are much more effective at winning the audience's vote. |
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Peter Griffin finds the use of this trope "both shallow and pedantic". This holds for any word used that Peter doesn't understand, such as "esoteric". Or... Also when he thought being chosen for jury duty made him part of the elite. |
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Monday Begins on Saturday: The hack academician Amvrosiy Amvrosiy Vybegallo speaks in unintelligibly mangled French and tries to imitate sophisticated syntax to sound more intelligent and conceal his lack of intellect and manners. And impress a girl. | |
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Stinks from Erky Perky tends to talk like this. Of course, no other character is actually smart enough to call him on it. | |
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A character in War and Peace speaks in unintelligibly mangled French to sound more intelligent and impress a girl. | |
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The Bob & Ray character of Dr. Elmer Stapley, "The Word Wizard", was all about this trope. | |
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The manual for Bulletstorm describes the planet the game takes place on as "once-beatific." Beatific can literally mean "bestowing bliss" or "blissful", which is what they were likely shooting for... but it carries very strong connotations that this bliss is sacred or holy in nature, which makes the line all kinds of awkward. Considering the game's tone, this may have been intentional. | |
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An episode of Friends had Joey writing a letter and discovering, to his delight, the thesaurus function on his word processor. Given the tool's imprecisions, his letter (and his dialogue for the rest of the episode) became this trope. | |
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Little Carmine Lupertazzi, in his constant efforts to demonstrate erudition he never had and couldn't begin to spell, fell prey to this on The Sopranos with monotonous regularity. | |
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Played for laughs a lot in Only Fools and Horses. Del Boy uses French words and phrases, and sometimes long English words, in an effort to sound sophisticated, knowledgeable, and/or upper-class. He fails. Other characters also do this from time to time, principally Boycie. | |
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Runabout from Transformers is a good example. He and his best friend/partner-in-crime Runamuck are basically delinquents who love pranks and graffiti. The difference is that while Runamuck is fully aware that what the duo are doing is childish and silly (and gladly embraces this fact), Runabout has deluded himself into believing that he's a brilliant, Banksy-style artist who creates revolutionary art and social commentary. His art is actually poorly scribbled phrases like "humans are wimps". | |
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Australia You're Standing In It: Tim and Debbie frequently mispronounce ("igniminiminous") and misuse ("vale" to mean "bravo") lofty-sounding words, and utter lengthy sentences meant to sound deep but that are just incoherent. | |
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