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Elective Broken Language
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Just like a character may choose not to speak or not to speak coherently, they may also willfully employ broken or idiosyncratic language. There may be various reasons for this: for instance, it can be part of Obfuscating Stupidity, a part of Fauxreigner's image, or a Cloudcuckoolander's peculiar way of self-expression. An increasingly common use of this trope is a subversion of Japanese Ranguage, Asian Speekee Engrish, Tonto Talk and other similar tropes: a foreigner who actually has a good command of English may amuse themselves by deliberately playing up racial stereotypes. May overlap with Language Fluency Denial. See also Hiding Behind the Language Barrier and Eloquent in My Native Tongue. Compare Keeping the Handicap, for someone who can get rid of their physical impairment but chooses not to. |
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Yuffie of Ansem Retort invokes Asian Speekee Engrish because it makes people think that she knows martial arts. | |
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Watchmen: Rorschach speaks in a very distinctively clipped, telegraphic style. This is downplayed when he's not wearing his mask, and we see in flashbacks that he didn't do it at all before his breakdown. The implication seems to be that he just can't be bothered any more with the elaborations of formal speech. | |
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In Dune one character speaks very oddly with random pauses, spacings, and emphasis. This odd speech is to prevent the Bene Gesserit True Seeing on him. | |
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In Thud!, the reason that anti-vampire sentiment in Ankh-Morpork has never seriously affected Otto Chriek, iconographer for the Times, is that Otto carefully plays up the "funny" side of vampirism, including a heavy Vampire Vords accent, so he's not seen as a threat. | |
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In Empire from the Ashes, Jiltanith speaks Flowery Elizabethan English (she learned it when she stayed on Earth during the Wars of the Roses), and refuses to modernize it as a way to show disdain for the modern world. | |
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In the "Mysterious Caravan" book of The Hardy Boys, the Hardys' friend Phil Cohen had to sneak into a restaurant to spy on a trio of treasure hunters. The chef who intercepted him (Phil tried getting in through the back/kitchen door) tried reasoning with him with perfect English (this part of the book is set in Jamaica, and the chef is a local), and Phil replies with gibberish to not attract attention. When his quarry leaves, so does Phil (again through the back), and the chef mutters that wherever Phil came from, he sure has strange traditions! When Phil reports to his friends later, they all burst out laughing. | |
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In East of Eden, Lee pretends to speak English in stereotypical Asian Speekee Engrish fashion: | |
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Destiny: In the first game, you meet Variks the Loyal, a non-hostile Fallen diplomat who speaks in broken english and a heavy accent when dealing with humans. In the sequel, other english-speaking Fallen appear, except they all speak normally, even the definitely hostile Psychopathic Manchild Mad Bomber. An idle line of dialogue from the Fallen crime lord Spider reveals Variks was feigning it to put humans at ease around him. | |
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One of the interns on Bones chose to do this for a long time, simply to stop people commenting on his deeply committed Muslim faith. | |
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It's revealed late in Dominic Deegan that Donovan's broken Orcish is an affectation that he maintains to screw with people, and he can speak it perfectly when he wants to. | |
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Philo Vance: Liang, the Coe family cook in The Kennel Murder Case, has apparently been pulling this one on the Coes all along. Vance immediately calls him out on it, and Liang goes back to speaking standard English — it was Obfuscating Stupidity, Liang went to Oxford. | |
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Matlal, the witch doctor of Subeta's Omen Islands, TALKS LIKE TONTO IN ALL CAPS, with loads of (largely-vegetable based) innuendo to top it off, but he holds a college degree and only talks that way because people expect it. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Ling Yao speaks very good Amestrian, except of course when it's convenient for him to pretend otherwise. | |
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Discworld: In Jingo 71 Hour Ahmed plays with this, he can speak fluent Morporkian when he wants to, but is as foreign as possible because "everyone knows foreigners are stupid". (In Klatch, he plays up his Morporkian education for the same reason.) In Thud!, the reason that anti-vampire sentiment in Ankh-Morpork has never seriously affected Otto Chriek, iconographer for the Times, is that Otto carefully plays up the "funny" side of vampirism, including a heavy Vampire Vords accent, so he's not seen as a threat. |
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In Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist. Hopalong Singh, the Chinese chef, can speak perfect English, but Mom pays him to Speekee Engrish instead because he'll sound more "authentic" that way. One of the Native Americans says he only uses Tonto Talk to make the tourists happy. | |
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In Jingo 71 Hour Ahmed plays with this, he can speak fluent Morporkian when he wants to, but is as foreign as possible because "everyone knows foreigners are stupid". (In Klatch, he plays up his Morporkian education for the same reason.) | |
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This is the origin of Carlito Colón's speaking mannerisms, as when he was given the Razor Ramon knockoff gimmick, Vince McMahon Jr felt he wasn't spic enough, so Carlito began things like the occasional Third-Person Person. | |
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In Firekeeper series by Jane Lindskold, the titular character usually speaks pidgin language because she believes proper grammar to be "unnesessary"; however, she can, and does, speak normally when she needs to make sure she is understood. | |
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In Fahrenheit, a Japanese-American bookstore owner Takeo speaks in stereotypical Asian Speekee Engrish fashion. It is later revealed that he does it merely because customers like "that wise old Japanese master stuff", and he was actually born in the US. | |
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Crazy Rich Asians: Goh Wye Mun, father of the protagonist Rachel's best friend Peik Lin, introduces himself to Rachel while the latter stays in the Goh family's mansion in Singapore with a wildly exaggerated Asian Speekee Engrish accent as a joke before dropping it and speaks in a perfectly normal American English accent (having studied at Cal State-Fullerton). He is played by Ken Jeong, so... | |
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In Council Wars, Bast the Wood Elf sometimes speaks in broken English or Yoda-like syntax, while at other times, she talks completely normally. Given her playful and eccentric personality, most likely she does it just for amusement. | |
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In the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting of Planescape, members of the Xaositect Faction may randomly make use of "Scramblespeak", a Factional argot in which the order of words in a sentence is jumbled up however the Xaositect likes. This can be very confusing, if not infuriating, for those who don't have a grasp on the idea, especially given how indecipherable the Cant (Sigil's native slang) can be to outsiders. It's justified because the Xaositects worship chaos and emulate it by giving themselves over to whatever random whim strikes their mood; it's not supposed to make any real sense. And, yes, doing it just because they think it's funny, or they want to annoy someone, is as good a reason to use it as any. | |
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The Walking Dead: The leader of the Scavengers drops many supporting words from her speech, giving her an oddly clipped manner of speaking. It's later revealed that she can speak normally if she wants, she apparently just thinks that this makes her more eerie to outsiders. | |
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In A Series of Unfortunate Events, both Olaf in his "Gunther" disguise ("The Erzatz Elevator") and Madame Lulu/Olivia Caliban in "Carnivorous Carnival" speak very peculiar English as a part of their Fauxreigner image. Downplayed with Olaf (since he does it only as a part of one particular disguise), and played straight with Lulu who has been doing it for a large part of her life (Lulu's language is actually more idiosyncratic than Olaf's: for instance, she also refers to herself in the third person). | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2: a side quest reveals that, at least in this game, the Nopon's speech patterns were tailored specifically to play up their cuteness and manipulate humans. It was started by a Nopon ship captain and the entire race followed suit. It is unclear whether current-day Nopon are capable of speaking normally and each intentionally choose to speak like this for this reason, or if this change naturally became a part of Nopon culture and the original reason and purposefulness was lost to the average Nopon long ago. | |
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Undertale has the Tem Shop Keeper, who speaks in poorly-capitalized broken English like all the other Temmies. However, if you refuse to sell an item she really wants, she gives you an evil smirk and says "You will regret this." If you helped her pay for college, she has an even more elaborate response: | |
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In The Three Investigators novel "The Secret of Shark Reef", there is a Japanese gardener called Torao. It turns out that he took on gardener's job in order to investigate the past of his grandfather; his broken English was part of the act (downplayed example, since he was doing it only temporarily). | |
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In Planescape: Torment, you can encounter the Xaositects and confront — or even learn — Scramblespeak yourself, as mentioned under Tabletop Games. Additionally, there's the NPC Ravel Puzzlewell, a Night Hag who's gone a little... peculiar... after centuries imprisoned in an extradimensional prison. In addition to randomly switching from normal speech to Yoda-esque Object-Subject-Verb order and back, with the occasional bit of Third-Person Person, she's prone to partially or wholely repeating sentences by substituting words with their textual homophones. She may also go off on something of a tangent or switch topics entirely based on a homophone that particularly catches her attention. It's unclear how much of this is her own particular choice of speech and how much stems from her lingering madness. |
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Jujutsu Kaisen: Toge Inumaki only speaks in rice ball ingredients, because anything else risks his Cursed Speech activating. | |
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Nelson in Life on Mars (2006) does this, speaking with an exaggerated Jamaican accent to other customers in the Railway Arms but speaking with a British accent to Sam; he tells Sam that "Folks seem happier with the other Nelson". Word of God say that this was inspired by Lee from East Of Eden. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Hanma apparently relies on her base Japanese knowledge she gets from being an Immortal when speaking it, as the commentary claims it's poorly translated, and despite knowing that it's incorrect, deliberately pronounces her name like Ranma. | |
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Hercule Poirot admits to a friend in Three Act Tragedy that he's perfectly capable of speaking proper English if he wants to, but he chooses not to because he's found it helpful to appear as an amusing and non-threatening foreigner. | |
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Thief: the Trickster God, just called the Trickster, god of the Pagans, can speak perfect English, as revealed by his disguise as the nobleman Constantine. He chooses to speak like the Pagans because he disdains human society. Whether this is true of the Pagans as well is unclear. | |
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The Sandman (1989): Emperor Joshua Norton acquires a Chinese manservant, with whom he speaks in perfect English. When a drunken sailor comes up asking where the opium dens are, he responds with "Very sorree, no speak English". | |
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Shinsuke Nakamura speaks fluent English, even well enough to serve as translator for his fellow Japanese wrestlers. However, during a 2017 heel turn in which he turned on fans and rivals, he started refusing to do interviews to explain his actions, simply saying "No speak English." He also changed his theme song from a non-lyrical chant that's easy for people to sing along with, to a lyrically complex, specifically to alienate English-speaking audiences. | |
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Master of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome speaks some kind of broken English until Blaster gets killed, at which point he reverts to a perfect English. | |
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The eponymous wizard in 7 Faces of Dr. Lao casually switches back and forth between speaking in a stereotypical Chinese accent and perfect English. | |
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Belisarius Series: Despite being fluent in several languages, Ousanas often deliberately speaks pidgin, either as a ruse or as a joke. Often it’s because, as dawazz to a teenage prince of Axum, it’s his royally-mandated job to be a Servile Snarker so his charge doesn’t get too full of himself, and “baby talks” down to his “fool prince” when he’s being stupid or hotheaded. | |
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In Venus Prime, Luke Lim can speak English perfectly well, but uses an exaggerated stereotypical accent when dealing with white people in the hopes of putting them off. | |
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Tekla in Seveneves intentionally uses Russianisms in her English. Her justification is that having to rebuild mankind from a group of seven, future mankind will have a single language, and since 5 of the 7 Eves are anglophones, it will probably be English. Thus intentionally mixing Russian in English is the best way to further her cultural heritage. It is shown that some Russian letters even made it into the future language. | |
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