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Tropes specifically having to do with use of language, including translations. See also: Dialogue, Innuendo Tropes, Oral Tradition, Incoherence Index, the Language Useful Notes, and Home Pages By Language (for this site in other languages). |
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Dropped link to ConstantlySpellsTheirName: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN |
| Language Tropes |
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Dropped link to ElNinoIsSpanishForTheNino: Not a Feature - ITEM |
| Language Tropes |
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Dropped link to LeastRhymableWord: Not a Feature - ITEM |
| Language Tropes |
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Dropped link to PointOfView: Not a Feature - IGNORE |
| Language Tropes |
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Dropped link to SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Not a Feature - ITEM |
| Language Tropes |
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Dropped link to YouKnowTheOne: Not a Feature - ITEM |
| Language Tropes |
processingUnknown |
Constantly Spells Their Name |
| Language Tropes |
isPartOf |
DBTropes |
| A.I.-cronym |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Accent Tropes |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Acquired Error at the Printer |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Acronym and Abbreviation Overload |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Acronym Confusion |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Acronyms Are Easy as Aybeecee |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Aliens Speaking English |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| all lowercase letters |
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Language Tropes |
| Alternate Catchphrase Inflection |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Alternate Character Reading |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Ambiguous Syntax |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Animal Talk |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Antiquated Linguistics |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Arab Beoble Talk |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Artificial Script |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Artistic License – Linguistics |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| As Long as It Sounds Foreign |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Asian Speekee Engrish |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Atomic F-Bomb |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Author Vocabulary Calendar |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Auto-Incorrect |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Baby Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Baby Talk |
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Language Tropes |
| Baby's First Words |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Bilingual Animal |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Bilingual Backfire |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Bilingual Bonus |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Bilingual Dialogue |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Bilingual Rhyme |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Binomium ridiculus |
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Language Tropes |
| Bite the Wax Tadpole |
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Language Tropes |
| Black Speech |
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Language Tropes |
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Language Tropes |
| Body Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Brand Name Takeover |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Buffy Speak |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Busman's Vocabulary |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| By "No", I Mean "Yes" |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Calculator Spelling |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Call a Human a "Meatbag" |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp" |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit" |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Canis Latinicus |
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Language Tropes |
| Classical Tongue |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Cloudcuckoolanguage |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Cluster F-Bomb |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Common Tongue |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Conlang |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Congestion Speak |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Conveniently Precise Translation |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Conversation Hog |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Country Matters |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Crunchtastic |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Cunning Linguist |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Curse of Babel |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Curse of The Ancients |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Cypher Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Deadly Euphemism |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Delusions of Eloquence |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Dialogue |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Did Not Do the Bloody Research |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Dinner Order Flub |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Dissimile |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Does Not Speak Common |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Don't Call Me "Sir" |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| El Spanish "-o" |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Elective Broken Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Elective Unintelligible |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Eloquent in My Native Tongue |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Engrish |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Enslaved Tongue |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Entendre Failure |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Eternal English |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Even the Subtitler Is Stumped |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Everyone Knows Morse |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Everything Sounds Sexier in French |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Expository Pronoun |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Familiar Soundtrack, Foreign Lyrics |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Fan Translation |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Fang Thpeak |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Fan Sub |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Fantastic Measurement System |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Fantastic Slurs |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Faux Fluency |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Fictionary |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Flowery Elizabethan English |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Flowery Insults |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Foreign Cuss Word |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Foreign-Language Tirade |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Foreign-Looking Font |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Foreigners Write Backwards |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Formal Characters Use Keigo |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| From the Latin "Intro Ducere" |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Fun with Acronyms |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Fun with Foreign Languages |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Fun with Homophones |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Fun with Palindromes |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Fun with Subtitles |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Future Slang |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Gay Euphemism |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Gender Vocabulary Slip |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Gesundheit |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Get Thee to a Nunnery |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Go to the Euphemism |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Good Bad Translation |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| GoshDangItToHeck |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Got Me Doing It |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Gratuitous Foreign Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter |
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Language Tropes |
| Hash House Lingo |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Have a Gay Old Time |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Hiding Behind the Language Barrier |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Hold Your Hippogriffs |
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Language Tropes |
| Hollywood Spelling |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| How Do You Say |
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Language Tropes |
| Hulk Speak |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Hurricane of Puns |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| I Do Not Speak Nonverbal |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| I Just Like Saying the Word |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| In My Language, That Sounds Like... |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| In the Local Tongue |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Incidental Multilingual Wordplay |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Incoherence Index |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Inconsistent Spelling |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Indo-European Alien Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Inexplicable Language Fluency |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Inexplicably Speaks Fluent Alien |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Informed Obscenity |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Inherently Funny Words |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Intentional Engrish for Funny |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Intentionally Awkward Title |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| International Pop Song English |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Invented Linguistic Distinction |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| "It" Is Dehumanizing |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Japanese Ranguage |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Jive Turkey |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Language Barrier |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Language Drift |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Language Equals Thought |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Language Fluency Denial |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Language of Magic |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Language of Truth |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Last-Second Word Swap |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Learnt English from Watching Television |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Leet Lingo |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Left Field Description |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Letters 2 Numbers |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Like Is, Like, a Comma |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Lost Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Lucky Charms Title |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Lyrical Tic |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Magical Foreign Words |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Magical Profanity Filter |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Magick |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Mamet Speak |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Medieval Universal Literacy |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Metaphorgotten |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Microts |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Military Alphabet |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Misspelling Out Loud |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Mixed Metaphor |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Mondegreen Gag |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Mouthing the Profanity |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Multilingual Song |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Multiple Languages, Same Voice Actor |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Multiple Reference Pun |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Naming Conventions |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Narrative Profanity Filter |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Neologism |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Neologizer |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Nerds Speak Klingon |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Never Learned to Read |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| No Longer with Us |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| no punctuation is funnier |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| No Punctuation Period |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Noble Tongue |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Non-Indicative Name |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Nu Speling |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Obligatory Swearing |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Oh, My Gods! |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Omniglot |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Once for Yes, Twice for No |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| One, Two, Three, Four, Go! |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Orphaned Etymology |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Otherworldly Communication Failure |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Overly Literal Transcription |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Pardon My Klingon |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Perfectly Cromulent Word |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Period Piece, Modern Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Person as Verb |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Phantasy Spelling |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Pig Latin |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Pluralses |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Poetry Tropes |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Poirot Speak |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Pokémon Speak |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| [Popular Saying], But... |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Portmanteau |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Precision F-Strike |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Prepositions Are Not to End Sentences With |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Pretentious Latin Motto |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Pretentious Pronunciation |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Primordial Tongue |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Pronoun Trouble |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Prophecies Rhyme All the Time |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Psmith Psyndrome |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Punctuation Changes the Meaning |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Punctuation Shaker |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Rapid-Fire Descriptors |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Recursive Acronym |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Recursive Translation |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Repeated Rehearsal Failure |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Rich Language, Poor Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Riddle |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Robo Speak |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Romantic Hyperbole |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Rouge Angles of Satin |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Royal "We" |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Sacred Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Scanlation |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Scare Quotes |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Scary Science Words |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Sdrawkcab Speech |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Separated by a Common Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Sexual Euphemism |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Shoehorned Acronym |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Shoehorned First Letter |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Single Language Planet |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Smart People Know Latin |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Sommelier Speak |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Son of an Ape |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Sophisticated as Hell |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Space "X" |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Speaking Like Totally Teen |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Speaking Simlish |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Speaks in Binary |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Speaks in Shout-Outs |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Speech-Centric Work |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Speech-Impeded Love Interest |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Spell My Name with a "The" |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Spelling for Emphasis |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Spock Speak |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Spoonerism |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Sssssnaketalk |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Starfish Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Stealth Pun |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Stupidly Long Filler Sound |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Stutter Stop |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Suddenly Bilingual |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Suddenly Speaking |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Switch to English |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| T-Word Euphemism |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Tactful Translation |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Talk Like a Pirate |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Talking Is a Free Action |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Teasing from Behind the Language Barrier |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Technical Euphemism |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Terse Talker |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| That Sounds Familiar |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| The All-Concealing "I" |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| The Body Parts That Must Not Be Named |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| The Power of Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| The Problem with Pen Island |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| The Queen's Latin |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Thieves' Cant |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Third-Person Person |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Tongue Twister |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Totally Radical |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Translate the Loanwords, Too |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Translated Cover Version |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Translation by Volume |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Translation Convention |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Translation Correction |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Translation Matchmaking |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Translation Punctuation |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Translation Style Choices |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Translation Train Wreck |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Translation Tropes |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Translation with an Agenda |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Translation: "Yes" |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Translator Microbes |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Trolling Translator |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Trope Names from Other Languages |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Trope Names from the French |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Trrrilling Rrrs |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Two of Your Earth Minutes |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Two Words: Added Emphasis |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Two Words: I Can't Count |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Tyop on the Cover |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Uncoffee |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Untranslated Catchphrase |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Unusual Dysphemism |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Verbal Tic |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Verbal Ticked |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Viewer Pronunciation Confusion |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Weapons-Grade Vocabulary |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| What Song Was This Again? |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| When Is Purple |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Wingdinglish |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Woolseyism |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Word Salad Philosophy |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Writing Lines |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Xtreme Kool Letterz |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Yiddish as a Second Language |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| You Are the Translated Foreign Word |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| You Keep Using That Word |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| You No Take Candle |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| You Say Tomato |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Elmuh Fudd Syndwome |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Font Anachronism |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Pun |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |
| Unusual Euphemism |
processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes |