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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
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Sesquipedalian: A long word, or characterized by the use of long words. From the Latin roots meaning "a foot-and-a-half long." Loquaciousness: That would be garrulousness, verboseness, effusiveness. How about "chattiness"? A predilection by the intelligentsia to engage in the manifestation of prolix exposition through a buzzword disposition form of communication notwithstanding the availability of more comprehensible, punctiliously applicable, diminutive alternatives. Also known as "gross verbosity". Related to this is the use of inkhorn terms, loanwords from a foreign origin that are pretentious to an average speaker. In brief: "smart" characters using long words when short ones would be better, especially when they are also motor mouths. Characters afflicted with this trait often seem to go out of their way to over-complicate their speech, probably because writers think that this is the only way to show that someone is more intelligent than the average writer. This could also be the trait of a particularly anal-retentive character who always has to be right, the trait extending so far that the character always has to use exactly the right word — never using "blue" when "azure" or "indigo" or even "royal blue" would be more accurate, for example. Occasionally such characters may drop the long words if things get particularly dire, to emphasize just how bad things are (in the same way as a Sarcasm Failure). Alternatively, they may get even more wordy as they get more emotional, leading to increasingly detailed but ultimately incoherent ranting that falls too easily into wangst. Frequently another character will respond with something like "Wouldn't it be easier to just [whatever the brainy person said, in layman's terms]?" or "And [layman's terms version], too!" In The United States, when someone really has no idea what the person says, they'll say something like, "Could you repeat that in plain ol' Galveston English?" Williams Syndrome can lead to this kind of behavior. People with Asperger Syndrome and some forms of Dyslexia may do this in an attempt to be as precise as possible, ironically making themselves harder to understand. The Narcissist, The Paranoiac, and other less-than-pleasant personalities may engage in this as well, often to try and convince others—or themselves—that they are smarter than most people. On a more sinister level, it can also be used as a form of verbal Gaslighting, in order to confuse, swamp, and manipulate the receiver so that a particular end may be met. The Con Man sometimes makes use of this trope too when passing off as a professional or an expert in their apparent "field", duping others into thinking that the only reason they don't understand what they are selling is that they are smarter than them or that they can trust them, when in fact they are spouting nonsense and looking to take advantage of their ignorance. While maintaining a strong endeavor to avoid flogging a deceased equine, or beat a dead horse, in some cases technical jargon is necessary to be understood, but in too many cases a person doesn't consider that the audience is not that technically inclined and a simpler, although less precise description would work just as well. One of the symptoms of Spock Speak, but averted in a good Private Eye Monologue. Usually also a Motor Mouth. Goes well with British accents, too. Used frequently in Sommelier Speak. Often takes advantage of the fact that Talking Is a Free Action, and could be a case of Acoustic License if the surroundings would make it difficult to hear clearly in the first place, much less understand the words. Can often lead to an Expospeak Gag. See also Techno Babble, Antiquated Linguistics, Sophisticated as Hell, Technical Euphemism, and Department of Redundancy Department. May result in Calling Me a Logarithm. If someone tries for this and can't get the words right, they're perpetrating Delusions of Eloquence. If the author commits this, see Purple Prose. The word Antidisestablishmentarianism is almost guaranteed to show up as well. Very heavily associated with the Steampunk genre in particular, and Truth in Television in that case, as the Victorians did speak a form of English that was more complex and verbose. It's worth noting that there is a word for the fear of long words; ironically, it's "sesquipedalophobia" often exaggerated by people into "hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia". There is an element of Artistic License – Linguistics involved, as "phobia" is a Greek root, while "sesquipedalo-" is Latin *In fact, Greek lost the chw, qu, and gw sounds around 1000 BC; that's why we say "phobia" rather than "phogwia". note Not that there would be any lack of such Greco-Roman hybrids in real life: see automobile (not autocinetum or ipsemobile), homosexuality (not parisexuality, although homoerotism can indeed occasionally be encountered) or television (not teleskopia or remotovision) See also Scary Science Words. The polar opposite of Buffy Speak and Layman's Terms. Big Words redirects here, for those of us who prefer to avert this trope in Real Life (or are just incapable of spelling it correctly off the tops of our heads). Contrast the Laconic Wiki. Compare and contrast Proverbial Wisdom for the typical speech patterns of wise, enlightened, and spiritual characters who use a lot of riddles, proverbs, and flowery metaphors. Also note the similarity to Techno Babble. May require one to have a Translator Buddy. When a character attempts this but lacks the vocabulary to follow through properly, see Malaproper. For a self-demonstrating version, please click here: Enjoy. |
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Stewart Pearson in The Thick of It is a political media strategist, who seems to have absolutely no communication skills, and whose speech consists entirely of buzzwords and nonsense. In the penultimate episode, it's revealed that he isn't doing this on purpose, he really thinks he's speaking in plain English, and using simple words and clear phrases requires real physical effort on his part. | |
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Mord Valgardsson in ''Njal Gets Burned'. | |
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In stark contrast to being unintelligible in the movies, Chewbacca in Darths & Droids. | |
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Mr. Ray from Finding Nemo: "Optical orbits up front. And remember, we keep our supraesophageal ganglion to ourselves. That means you, Jimmy." | |
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Dapper T. Dog from Tuca & Bertie tends to talk like this. One such example comes in "The Promotion": | |
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Lincoln: Rep. Fernando Wood, the main orator for the pro-slavery Democrats, gives loud and wordy speeches in a hammy manner, which his opponents sometimes mock.note Truth in Television; The real Wood actually was quite hammy and was even censured by Congress after an 1868 speech where he insulted everyone in the House. | |
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In Trials & Trebuchets, the living paper crow Crowrigami speaks in this manner while in the Talking Animal world. | |
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The Autobiography of Jane Eyre: Adele is an Adorably Precocious Child and a Child Prodigy, and this is her mode of speaking if she's not speaking a foreign language. For instance, she described fingernail art as "rather cathartic". | |
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Ringo does this a lot in A Hard Day's Night | |
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From Viz we have Raffles, Gentleman Thug (an obvious parody of Raffles) who speaks like a Victorian gentleman and acts like a modern delinquent. | |
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Basil in The Great Mouse Detective. | |
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By the second Fantasy Quest game, the narration turns into full-out parody, challenging you to "absquatulate with the Golden Cufflink of Fire"... | |
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X-Men: Doctor Henry McCoy, a.k.a. Beast, does this all the time. In most incarnations, it's for the joy of wordplay — everyone he works with already knows he's a genius — though it undoubtedly has a side effect of convincing people he's never met before that even mutants who look like him can possess an enormous vocabulary. Interestingly, in his earliest appearances in the X-Men comic, he was not portrayed as particularly intelligent. However, Stan Lee decided his behavior too closely resembled the Thing from the Fantastic Four and upgraded his intelligence and vocabulary in order to set him apart. And he does it with insults, too; "go suck eggs" becomes: The X-Men Noir version of the Beast, while genuinely intelligent (but not to the exaggerated levels of the normal one), goes out of his way to use larger words that he doesn't quite understand because it gives him a stronger air of intelligence. Forge does this a couple of times. One time, he goes into a lengthy plan involving geometry at a football game huddle, causing everyone to get confused. The X-Men's Dr. Nemesis often does this, specifically as a means to insult or talk down to anyone he believes to be less intelligent than himself. That is to say, everyone. It gets hilariously played with when a telepathic starfish latches onto his face and begins broadcasting all of his inner thoughts: |
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Cap'n Turbot from PAW Patrol tends to talk with long and alliterative words. | |
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French comic book Achille Talon could have practically defined this trope. The hero, a fat bourgeois, as well as most of his entourage, adds verbosity to pedantry and pretentiousness to gullibility in an incredible verbal creativeness. | |
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Waldo of Our Gang (a.k.a. The Little Rascals). | |
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Don Karnage, the leader of the Air Pirates in Disney's TaleSpin, does this a lot. | |
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In Robin and the 7 Hoods, the elderly and respectable Alan A. Dale speaks this way, contrasting with the casual speech of Robbo and his gang. | |
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Tales of Monkey Island: In "Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay", Guybrush has another meaning to "You suck!": Near the end of Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood, when Guybrush asks De Singe what he's doing with the Vaycaylian Wind Control Device (before attempting to toss La Esponja Grande into the device), De Singe replies, "You see, using my handbuilt Harpsichronitron, in conjunction with my Oscimoligrophiscope to seek out a resonant frequency with the Vaycaylian Climatiphone, I hope to anatomize living tissue on a macroscopic basis!" Guybrush, however, becomes clueless and can ask De Singe to repeat with the purposes of all this machinery, and De Singe can translate that he's using the piano device ("this machine") to make the Wind Control Device ("that machine") "smash people into a fine powder," which, of course, causes Guybrush to say, "Hey, that's not very nice!" |
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century used this trope at times, especially in the earlier episodes. Often lampshaded by having Buck be increasingly irritated at having to stop and figure out the "simplistic" 20th-century equivalent for whatever the other characters are talking about. | |
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Suicide for Hire's characters all use long words, and a lot of 'em. The comic's banner has a caption reading "Yeah, it's got dialogue. If you don't like it, you are entitled to bite my ass." | |
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The "genius" types on Bones, including the character nicknamed "Bones", do this often. Justified, in that those who do so outside of the professional circumstances in which it's expected to show other signs of Asperger's as well, particularly Dr. Zack Addy. Brennan once agreed with someone by saying, "I concur. Vehemently!" And then there's this exchange from "The Titan on the Tracks": Dr. Gordon Wyatt does this too, possibly because he's played by Stephen Fry |
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Redwall's hares and more Wicked Cultured villains occasionally drop into this. "So what happens when the bally precipitation ceases?" (blank stares) "Sorry, I mean what happens when the rain stops?" And another time: | |
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This particular style has grown into a fad and been applied to YouTube Poop sources. To list a few... | |
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The Simpsons: "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" has Homer start talking like this after a Sleep Learning tape intended to curb his hunger is switched with a vocabulary builder. "Lamentably, no. My gastronomic rapacity knows no satiety." Later played with, when Homer loses his vocabulary without regaining his ability to communicate succinctly. Some of the more intellectually inclined Springfield residents (Sideshow Bob, Professor Frink) occasionally indulge in this. And then there's Mr. Burns and his Antiquated Linguistics. Being the aesthete that he is, Sideshow Bob, however, rejected the sesquipedalian but inelegant "disembowel" in favour of a much shorter word when he wrote down what to do with Bart in Cape Feare: |
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Fitz and Simmons on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. have a tendency to speak this way. | |
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Eureka: Pretty much every scientist speak this way. Justified since Carter is the only person in town who can't understand this, and given the problems involve complex science they likely feel that a detailed explanation would be necessary. Henry usually serves as translator. A lot of them were also just arrogant. When someone interrupts your lunch there is no reason a normal person would respond, "Can't a man masticate in peace?" |
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In Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, Captain Qwark disguised as Abercrombie Fizzwidget does this... or at least tries to. However, he just comes off looking like a total moron as he constantly spews words that don't exist. The real Fizzwidget doing this correctly is about the only character trait we see of him in his short amount of screen time. | |
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Marcus from 1/0 not only uses big words, but he also makes them up. In keeping with the rules of English, albeit words only eccentric bureaucrats (or Lewis Carroll) would ever use. E.g.: complexitization, endetailing, envivifating, manifestulates, etc. | |
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Pulp Adventures has William Harper "Johnny" Littlejohn from the Doc Savage franchise (cf. Literature) as one of the (many) available player characters. His flavour text not only refers to the trope but one of his ability, "Voluminous Vocabulary" weaponizes this by confusing the enemies. The description of the ability is itself an example of the trope: | |
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The Jackyl (Don "Cyrus" Callis) lampshaded his tendency to do this at the start of the Golga vs. Headbanger Thrasher match, which marked the debut of the Oddities, on the May 25 (taped May 19), 1998 WWF Raw Is War, telling announcer Jim Ross, "I know I have a tendency to speak above your intellectual level." | |
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Gotham: Oswald Cobblepot, Edward Nygma and Jeremiah Valeska all have moments of this, and sometimes get annoyed at their minions for not quite understanding them. And: |
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Black Widowers: In "The Unabridged", the guest mentions that his aunt would never use a simple term if a longer, fancier-sounding one was available; believing that this made her sound educated. Naturally, this habit plays a vital role in the ultimate solution to the mystery. | |
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In Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours, Doctor Strange uses the longest words possible, much to Spider-Man's annoyance. | |
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Ao in Asteroid in Love has the tendency to use very exact and technical vocabulary when explaining astronomy, regardless of the audience. The effect of this varies; Ao's explanations scared a toddler, but got a few other people—including Mira—interested in astronomy. It is also deconstructed in the Shiny Star Challenge arc; she doesn't get into the eponymous science summer camp because she wrote the entrance essay that way—she wrote dozens of pages, and cut it down to two. | |
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iCarly: Kyle, the boy Carly dates in "iQ", is an extreme offender of this trope. | |
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The writers for Looney Tunes sometimes had a fondness for big words. In the mid-1940s, Daffy was quite fond of this. He once asked a crying dog, "Why the copious flow of lachrymal fluid, my garrulous canine?" | |
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Eugene on Adventures in Odyssey speaks this way to the point of hilarity or exasperation, depending on who he's speaking to. Katrina has a vocabulary to match Eugene's, but is careful to limit her verbosity to when they are speaking to each other, although even this seems to have changed by the time she returned from her bus trip. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) more than any other incarnation, Donatello is guilty of this. He frequently geeks out about future technology or the chemical properties of things he runs across, and Techno Babble ensues. One of the others (usually Michelangelo, but occasionally Raphael) acknowledges this, and usually asks him to repeat himself in English this time. Though sometimes the writers sacrifice snappier dialogue to remind us that he's the smart one: | |
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My Little Pony: Wind Whistler. "This meteorological debacle is quite anomalous." Peach Blossom too: "I will reconnoiter post-haste and ascertain what has transpired!" Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic exhibits this trope whenever she's describing anything sciency, often showing great pride at her loquacious explanation. |
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The Coneheads' speech is a heavy mixture of this and Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp". | |
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Leeron in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann frequently does this after the Time Skip, with "short versions" inevitably following after he loses his audience. Lordgenome's Head is pretty bad at this too. |
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Downplayed in Stand Still, Stay Silent when Mikkel uses it to lampshade the ridiculousness of Emil's request. While not up to par with other examples of this page, it definitely stands out in the comic. | |
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Poet and spoken word musician Gil Scott-Heron was not impressed with artists using this trope. On "Message to the Messengers", he mused that "Four-letter words or four-syllable words won't make you a poet/It will only magnify how shallow you are and let everybody know it" | |
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Tish in The Weekenders. It becomes a plot point of an episode where the others refer to it as "Tishing" and it becomes a widespread saying. | |
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V of V for Vendetta introduces himself like this, complete with oodles of alliteration. He calms down eventually but still speaks very intelligently. It's pretty epic, and implies that somebody pillaged a thesaurus a few times, specifically, the sections of a thesaurus between the letters "U" and "W". | |
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Valve's Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator (Gravity Gun) from Half-Life 2, and Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (Portal Gun) from Portal, as well as many of the utterances of the Genetic Lifeform and Disc Operating System from the latter title. The latter partially comes from the Aperture Science folk wanting to stick their name in front of everything (Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill, Aperture Science High-Energy Pellet, Aperture Science Vital Apparatus Vent, etc). Dr. Kleiner is likewise rather prone to communicating in this manner, especially when the nature of his audience makes it inappropriate. Aperture Science in general loves this trope. Fifteen Hundred Megawatt Aperture Science Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button anyone? Aperture Science Aerial Faith Plate (a catapult) Aperture Science Edgeless Safety Cube (a ball) |
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In Darkwing Duck, Splatter Phoenix talks like this. How bad is it? Well, in her introduction she calls herself a "daringly innovative pseudo anti-neo post modern deconstructionist" and gets more long-winded from there. | |
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Lampshaded on Star Trek: Discovery when Science Officer Connolly of the Enterprise offers a complicated explanation for a phenomenon, Burnham offers a simpler analogy, and Pike expresses his preference for the latter. | |
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Dr. Edward Roivas of Eternal Darkness is a very eloquent speaker, which fits given that his narrations are a homage to Lovecraft. The Ancient Ulyaoth always has a vocabulary to match his grand size. | |
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Hamlet spoofs it with the character Osric, who desperately tries to look intelligent by talking this way. Hamlet mocks him by going even farther over the top with it. As you might imagine, a Shakespeare speech that's deliberately written to be obtuse and impenetrable is quite something to witness. Polonius and his love of speaking many words! "Brevity is the soul of wit," indeed. And the Archbishop in Henry V, whose loquaciousness over Henry's right to the French crown is usually played for laughs, but also hides the reality that Henry's claim to the English crown was almost as weak (his father having been a usurper) Holofernes and Nathaniel's copious amounts of latin in Love's Labour's Lost also qualifies. |
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Trapper Bull Gator, and the Platypus Brothers from Taz-Mania speak like this naturally. | |
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G.I. Joe: As part of an effort to appear more intelligent than he is, Cobra Commander can often be found using very advanced words, especially if Larry Hama happens to be writing the story. Perhaps the greatest use of this was in a Transformers vs. GI Joe comic wherein he called Zarana "steatopygous" (i.e., she has a big butt). | |
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And the Archbishop in Henry V, whose loquaciousness over Henry's right to the French crown is usually played for laughs, but also hides the reality that Henry's claim to the English crown was almost as weak (his father having been a usurper) | |
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In Leading Ladies, Audrey atttempts to sound more intelligent by sprinkling longer words into her vocabulary, and then feels the need to define them for the audience. | |
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In Frank and Ernest, Frank and Ernest join The American Civil War reenactors because they just like saying Sesquicentennial. | |
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Baldur's Gate II: One character encountered early speaks like this, and uses it as evidence that he is more intelligent than everyone around him. If your own character has a high enough Intelligence score, you can insinuate (in a similarly roundabout, verbose way) that you think he does so to make up for a rather private "deficiency" on his part. Edwin too, IS this trope. |
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In Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal 2010-08-02, a scientist creates an invention called the logogeneplex, which turns clear wording into this. Example: "We used a ruler" becomes "We utilized a linear distance analyzer." | |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: Zarekos does this to use Added Alliterative Appeal in his speak, using "begone", "brainless" and "buffoon", instead of words like "leave", "idiot" and "fool": | |
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Tom in The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan is practically defined by this trope, to the point where his siblings have commented more than once about how they wished he'd speak English. Also in "The Greek Caper", Tom was about to offer his suggestion on how to search for missing statue and was gently told by Alan to "keep it simple". Henry lampshades this in the comic book adaptation of "To Catch A Pitcher": | |
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Enchanted Forest Chronicles: The nerdy magician Telemain always talks like this, with Morwen usually having to translate for him. However, when he is glared at hungrily by Kazul, a sentient dragon, he manages to speak normally, albeit very very slowly. Also used in Dealing with Dragons of the same series, in regards to a book on the Caves of Fire and Night. At the end, Morwen says something about how the magic had worked, and Cimorene exclaims, "Just the way that impossible book says!" and Morwen responds, "Demontmorency? Yes, I suppose he is fairly impossible." |
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Bane from The Dark Knight Rises is very well-spoken. This is used to contrast from his frightening and brutish looking appearance, and also to highlight his high intelligence. | |
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Corner Gas: Wanda is prone to this. See also her chant when she goes on strike in "Get the F Off My Lawn": |
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Walter Denton on Our Miss Brooks, making him seem smarter than he really is. | |
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The X-Men Noir version of the Beast, while genuinely intelligent (but not to the exaggerated levels of the normal one), goes out of his way to use larger words that he doesn't quite understand because it gives him a stronger air of intelligence. | |
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Taken to ridiculous extremes in the fan-made Phylomortis RPG Maker games where every single character spoke in nothing but big words... including children no older than six years old. Even the in-game tutorials abused this. That, coupled with their Nintendo Hardness made the series inaccessible to all but the most dedicated gamers. The sole gimmick of the game was its ridiculous standard of vocabulary, however, so it's safe to say that its target audience (however small) was indeed captured. Not just the characters. Most of the menu commands and system dialogue, too. Most games would be content with ending a battle with "Victory!" or "You won the battle!" Phylomortis capped it off with "You mercilessly slew the obnoxious foe..." | |
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Both Calvin and Hobbes from Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes are known for having particularly verbose discussions with each other. This is occasionally mentioned, such as in the Tenth Anniversary Collection, in contrast with his usual failing grades at school. He must obey the inscrutable exhortations of his soul. He once wrote a book report entitled "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick And Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes." What if someone calls us a pair of pathetic peripatetics? Calvin likes to use this to insult the school bully in a way he knows Moe won't understand. Word of God also says he liked Calvin's ability to precisely articulate stupid ideas. |
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Henry Ramos Allup from El Chigüire Bipolar (he uses this in Real Life, and the blog exaggerates it). | |
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The Kingkiller Chronicle: This is apparently Elodin's Berserk Button. He's rumored to have started a bar fight with a man who wouldn't stop saying "utilize" instead of "use." Another version of the rumor is that the man wouldn't stop saying "moreover." | |
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Lord Rugdumph gro-Shurgak in Oblivion is a victim of this as well, although he never gets it right: | |
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Power Rangers: Billy on the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers spoke like this; every time he said anything, everyone looked expectantly at Trini until she translated. However, when the situation became truly dire, he sometimes lapsed into regular speech; whether this meant he used big words to show off intelligence or the show had bad writers was never explained. This tended to get phased out as the seasons went on as if his hanging out with the other teens helped him pick up their speech habits (or possibly because Trini had left). Ironically, most people watching the show on TV could understand him fine, or at least guess the intent of his statements by context. It's only in-universe that everybody but Trini is left utterly confused. The best example of this is "Life's A Masquerade" when he gives the Morphing Call for the first time. Instead of the standard "It's Morphin' Time" Billy-Speak turns it into "It's time for Molecular Transmutation." However, by Season 3, he called out a standard "It's Morphin' Time". Power Rangers RPM's'' Dr. K does this on occasion (i.e. when she's not being blunt), including to hilarious effect in "Ghosts" when she threatens her leader, Colonel Truman, with inserting laxative into his coffee mug, which would lead to a case of explosive diarrhea. In Power Rangers Ninja Storm, Monster of the Week Boxing Bop-a-roo had such a bad case of this that Lothor indirectly accused him of making up Perfectly Cromulent Words by starting a "Made-Up Word Jar". On top of that, many other characters suffered from the fact that he Got Me Doing It. |
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion pretty much anyone in the technical division at NERV does this, Dr. Akagi being the worst offender. "General Purpose Humanoid Decisive Weapon Evangelion" indeed... | |
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Whateley Universe: Phase is known for this, and has even used it deliberately to confuse or delay his opponents. | |
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One episode of WordGirl involves a villain using Applied Phlebotinum to cause random people to use large words in order to sell dictionaries. Wordgirl surprisingly averted this in one episode when she says that it's more important to use good words than big words. | |
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Jerry, a character in Voices from the High School, decides to imitate the language of Shakespeare, much to his friend's chagrin. | |
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Married... with Children: Kelly Bundy manages to bust out some big words for such a "bombastic simpleton". She doesn't always use the right words, but sometimes she's spot-on. | |
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The nonfictional portion of The Science of Discworld points out that without the use of "privatives" in language — terms for the absence of things, such as "dark" (no light), "cold" (lack of heat), or "sober" (a state of non-intoxication) — everyone would have to talk like this. | |
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Kid Icarus: Uprising: Palutena dips into this while teasing Pit: And when Pit faces off against the Hewdraw head. |
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Total Drama Pahkitew Island: Scarlett tends to lapse into this due to her intelligence, only to quickly subvert it when she realizes that no one can understand her. | |
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Humorously played with in a MADtv (1995) sketch featuring Bobby Lee as a high school wrestler wrestling a science geek played by...Triple H, speaking with big words and all, in a falsetto voice. | |
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Nature of Nature's Art has almost every important character talk this way, thanks in large part to the very nature of the webcomic, though it's eased up in the latter portions of the latest story. | |
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Ed Wiskoskinote Real name William Edward Wiskoski, aka the AWA's Col. DeBeers, one of wrestling's many teachers-turned-wrestlers, would cut promos using this kind of language when he and "Playboy" Buddy Rose were teaming in the old NWA Pacific Northwest territory, and Rose would sum up the promo by saying, "What he basically said, for everyone who didn't understand, is we're going to kick everybody's ass." | |
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Due to her immensely dry dialogue, Shelke from Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus has been classified as this by fanon. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV: Urianger does it for even the most basic conversations. While he is indeed very intelligent and a useful source of exposition for the player, he seems to go out of his way to make every explanation he gives as long winded as possible due to his own flair for the dramatic. Several characters often remark that he is want to use ten words where one would suffice. | |
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The Gnomes as a whole from World of Warcraft tend to do this, best exemplified by some of their jokes and flirt emotes. In Battle For Azeroth, this even stretches to the ability names of a tribe of gorillas who have been feeding on kaja'mite; a mineral substance discovered by goblins that enhances intellect. The rank-and-file use an ability called Parabolic Excrementnote Hurling their crap at you while the tribe's leader - King Da'ka - often uses one called Locomotion Via Ballistic Trajectory... which is just a copy of the Warrior's Heroic Leap. |
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An overly-complex vocabulary was the major character trait of William Harper "Johnny" Littlejohn in the Doc Savage novels. Throughout the series, Johnny was always careful to use regular words around Doc Savage, mainly because Doc would have understood everything he was saying so it wouldn't have been any fun. The other members of the team also suspected that he often used his big words incorrectly, and didn't want Doc to catch him at it. His tendency to use big words also bit him in the ass once. He was captured by a group of criminals, whose sadistic leader had no patience with Johnny's vocabulary. Johnny was warned that if he used a single big word while answering questions, he'd get the beating of a lifetime. Sure enough, Johnny forgets and uses a big word...and an absolutely brutal beatdown ensues. | |
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Blue Stahli. And HOW! | |
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From Fat, French and Fabulous: "You're probably the only person I know who would use the phrase "provenance of their wares" in casual conversation." "Nevermind in the context of grave-robbing, at fucking all." | |
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In the Minecraft series Bookcraft, stacyplays does "Word of the Episode" sessions, where she introduces an uncommonly used word Once per Episode to the audience and has to use the word in the episode itself. She also occasionally slips into this during her Mineclash series against her Friendly Rival, Graser. | |
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Billy on the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers spoke like this; every time he said anything, everyone looked expectantly at Trini until she translated. However, when the situation became truly dire, he sometimes lapsed into regular speech; whether this meant he used big words to show off intelligence or the show had bad writers was never explained. This tended to get phased out as the seasons went on as if his hanging out with the other teens helped him pick up their speech habits (or possibly because Trini had left). Ironically, most people watching the show on TV could understand him fine, or at least guess the intent of his statements by context. It's only in-universe that everybody but Trini is left utterly confused. The best example of this is "Life's A Masquerade" when he gives the Morphing Call for the first time. Instead of the standard "It's Morphin' Time" Billy-Speak turns it into "It's time for Molecular Transmutation." However, by Season 3, he called out a standard "It's Morphin' Time". | |
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Perceptor, of The Transformers. It's particularly bad when your fellow robots, all of whom would likely have the whole of a given language in their databanks, ask you to say something "in [language], please". It probably doesn't help that he has a habit of going into details WHILE using complex words, to the point where Optimus tires of it in seconds. It's actually kind of justified; he's a gifted scientist in multiple areas, is used to thinking of these high-end areas in their scientific terms, and like any good real-life scientist, is really enthusiastic about his subject(s), and likes to discuss them when the opportunity comes up. Grimlock also does it when he gets smart in the episode "Grimlock's New Brain". I, Grimlock, after being gifted with remarkable intelligence, also speak in this manner in the mirror universe. Highbrow is also guilty of this, in "The Rebirth". Oddly enough, Brainstorm, who was the actual smart guy of the Headmasters team, spoke fairly commonly unless he actually needed the jargon. Highbrow just did it to sound smart. You don't wanna get Genius Ditz Bulkhead from Transformers: Animated talking about space bridges. You'll miss Perceptor. Across all series, Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp" is in effect and machine-related terms with elements of the Cybertronian life-cycle mixed in are always used. This can leave characters who are not supposed to be geniuses talking as if the X-Men's Beast taught them English on the way in. They're not parents, they're "protoform batch initiators." Even the show's tagline, "More than Meets the Eye", can be given onscreen as "more than meets the optic sensors." |
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series: In "Yin-Yang", as Lilo and Pleakley chase Gantu for catching Yin and Yang, Pleakley says this. | |
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Ben 10: Alien Force: As Brainstorm (a "seafood platter with a rather high IQ", as he puts it), Ben 10 is prone to using extremely large words. With a British accent. His previous "smart form", Greymatter, tended to use words of a more normal size unless referring to scientific principles. The Vreedle Brothers are a bizarre combination of erudite and slow-minded idiots. |
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The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon talks like this all the time. Any of the four main geeks do this often, mostly between themselves or colleagues when discussing theories or projects, but are quick to drop it around Penny as to include her... well, except for Sheldon, but he expects people to accommodate him in any situation, and will complain about having to do so for others. Sheldon even talks like this when he's speaking to Penny about simple everyday things; he usually ends up having to put things in Layman's Terms for her and never seems to realize that he should have just done so in the first place. | |
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The Ultimate Warrior was also famous for this, interspersing feral snarling, grunting, and shouting with long, rambling promos peppered with million-dollar words used almost-correctly. In his later years, he even started throwing in words he made up out of whole cloth, apparently believing his character motivations to be too complex to explain in the English language as it stands. | |
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Rose Lalonde from Homestuck. She wrote a game FAQ entirely using this and Purple Prose, just for one example. An eventual character corresponding to her via IM services, Kanaya, has just as big a vocabulary if not more so, and applies it in a less purple and more literal way. Equius falls victim to this from time to time. Eridan also appears to have quite an extensive vocabulary and is not hesitant to show it. And Kankri blows them all out of the water. He rarely has anything to say that isn't at least a few pages long, leaving the poor Karkat completely speechless upon their first meeting in [S] ACT 6 INTERMISSION 3. Aranea too, as well as Vriska. It's apparently a common trait among Light aspect players, which is fitting because Light seems to be about information. |
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, when Dr. McCoy wants to get past some guards: It's sillier than that— he's implying she's either gassy or has a touch of Balloon Belly from overindulging. |
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Penny Arcade's Tycho, both the author and the in-comic persona, likes to do this, as does his niece Ann (AKA Annarchy). When Penny Arcade did the mini-series Automata, Carl Swangee at one point refers to talking about the weather as "the ambient barometric pressure". | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich", the mob boss Nino Lancaster is extremely verbose, using several multisyllable words in every sentence. This is lampshaded when he refers to his "complex syntax." | |
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I, Grimlock, after being gifted with remarkable intelligence, also speak in this manner in the mirror universe. | |
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Deadwood: E.B. Farnum, an oily Smug Snake with a Small Name, Big Ego, is very prone to waxing overly poetic in an attempt to pass himself off as better than he is. He has an annoying habit of repeating Swearangen's statements back to him with slightly more complex language, causing him to get reprimanded. A.W. Merrick, the local newspaper man, is one of the few people in town with a classical education, so he's prone to overly academic language in the frontier boom town. In one notable scene, he writes an announcement that the smallpox vaccine as "gratis." Swearengen insists on clearer language: "Free gratis." When Merrick points out that this is a redundancy, Swearengen snarls, "Then take out the gratis!" |
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In Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, he combines this trope with alliteration and a hefty amount of gambling-related puns. | |
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Megabyte Beagle on two occasions in the DuckTales (1987) TV movienote later shown in the actual series as a 5-part episode Super DuckTales. On both, he would eventually be told to "say it in Beagle talk". | |
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Drax of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) has a wide vocabulary and sometimes speaks in unnecessarily big words. In a bit of delicious Irony, the word "thesaurus" is apparently not part of this vocabulary, as he takes offense at being called a "walking thesaurus". | |
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Fetch Quest: Saga of the Twelve Artifacts' Felicia tends to use big words when she talks, which is perfectly fine for her, but awkward for others. Ambrosia calls her out on this practice: | |
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Vaarsuvius from The Order of the Stick, especially early on. In the prequel book On the Origin of PCs, Roy has a go at it himself to convince Vaarsuvius that he's not just a big, dumb fighter who wants to suborn the smart guy by hiring him. For obvious reasons Vaarsuvius is an exception to the usual Talking Is a Free Action rule. But even then, no matter how long-winded their spiels get, it's still only a standard action at worst, comparable to casting a spell. Observe. |
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The Dick Van Dyke Show: Rob Petrie tried to explain his brother's symptomatic somnambulance to Sally. She stared at him and said to Buddy, "Could you tell him not to talk to me like that?" | |
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Confessions (Saint Augustine): The Manichees are condemned for using with their rapid-fire mixtures of strange syllables and Christian-sounding words to fool St. Augustine into thinking they speak philosophy and truth when they knew nothing. | |
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Throughout the Arkham games, The Riddler constantly peppers his speech with five dollar words to show off how smart he is. This ends up backfiring on him in the Catwoman DLC in Knight since his security AI does not recognize most of his bigger words, forcing him to stop and explain them. | |
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Ezra from The Magnificent Seven series, frequently punctuates his conversations with unnecessarily extensive and articulate vocabulary. | |
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In 2009, it is Chris Jericho who is noted for using an SAT vocabulary, usually as an insult towards the fans WWE Universe, calling them gelatinous tapeworms, germ incubators, hypocrites, pharisees, among other not so nice things. | |
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Tombstone Rashomon: Doc Holliday and Johnny Behan are better educated than most of the others invoved in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (or, as Doc would insist, 'on Fremont Street') and like to cultivate the impression of being gentlemen by using large words and speaking in a grandiloquent style. Cononel Hafford is also educated, but his vocal affection runs more to poetic turns of phrase rather than unnecessary verbiage. | |
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Digimon Adventure's Izzy tends to fall into this sometimes when he plays Mr. Exposition, further solidifying his place as The Smart Guy. | |
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Massey Reinstein in Schlock Mercenary uses this trope to intimidate Schlock in one strip. It works. Equally fun is a few strips earlier when Ebbirnoth describes having had his only (grapefruit-sized) eye shot off, and the effects of the drug cocktail he was given to keep the pain under control. |
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In All Fall Down, AIQ Squared suffers from this. He can't help it, it's in his programming. | |
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The Parselmouth of Gryffindor: The minor character Hengist Rawkes always talks like this — or at least, his portrait does. "Ron Weasley has been manhandled by a humanoid specimen entitled Sirius Black!" | |
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Episode 22 of Azumanga Daioh does this in the English Dub. In the Japanese version, it's just Gratuitous English. | |
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Gohan in Dragon Ball Z Abridged delves into this occasionally. Piccolo usually responds with "NEEEEEEEEEERD!!" (The irony here is that in the original, Piccolo was the one with a tendency towards pompous speech patterns.) | |
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Played for laughs in I Must Be Going, an installment of Skyhold Academy Yearbook, in which Varric reads a Real-Person Fic he's penned. He uses smaragdine to describe one character's green eyes, and the students listening to the story object to the inclusion of such a ridiculous word. As one of them says, "I don't think that's a real word. Or if it is, it shouldn't be." (It is. It's used to describe something as being emerald green.) | |
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Schitt's Creek: Moira Rose, full stop. Why lunch when you can repast? Or have a chat when you can confabulate? It's part of what makes her Large Ham persona so much fun. | |
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Both the Red Skull and Dr. Arnim Zola in Captain America: The First Avenger. | |
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Parodied to the extreme with Lucky's three-page monologue in Waiting for Godot. Read through it carefully and there is actually a philosophical point being made, but it is embroidered with so much verbal diarrhea, non-sequiturs, and just sheer nonsense words that it sounds like a complete load of gibberish. | |
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Arno from the Learning Voyage series talks in this way to show off how smart he is. For example, when he introduces himself, he says "My appellative is Arno." | |
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In The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Mo'Linguish", Mojo Jojo teaches the whole town to speak like he does. The simple, straightforward word is intentionally neglected in favor of over-eloquence. Example from the Mayor, calling about a bank robbery: | |
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The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. | |
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Retsupurae notes this in Michael Gibson, creator of the Ambition series. Yale is easily the biggest offender and abuser of 10-dollar words, with Ted coming in second. The person who wrote Blood Whistle also loves to use big words. |
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CRISIS: Equestria: Starlight Shadow takes this trope and runs with it, much to the chagrin of the other cast members, especially Insipid. | |
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Twilight's List: Twilight Sparkle engages in this, causing Rainbow Dash to tune her out, and as a result miss out on the fact that Twilight is asking her out on a practice date, leading to Rainbow Dash believing that Twilight IS romantically interested in her. | |
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In Bob and George, there's an entire alternate universe consisting out of people who only talk like this. Sure, they can dumb themselves down to communicate with the lessers, but when at one point there's a present, a future and a far future version of two characters there's only Sesquipedalian dialogue. | |
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Captain Hook from Peter Pan & the Pirates speaks so eloquently that many adults watching it would have a hard time understanding what he's referring to half the time. Fortunately he manages to make his meaning clear as most of the time he speaks when angry and insulting his crew. Despite being a pirate it doesn't come across as out of place thanks to the Victorian era gentleman style he has. | |
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Shlubb and Klump (a.k.a. Fat Man and Little Boy) from Sin City indulge in this type of dialogue in an attempt to look intelligent. However, they tend to mix a fair amount of malapropism in with it as well. The result is called Delusions of Eloquence. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Bastian is often known for this, and contrasted with Geoffery who often verbally plays The Stoic. Miriel from Fire Emblem: Awakening seems to fall into this category as well, often bringing up the amelioration and propitious growth of her stats; her son, Laurent, naturally follows suit. | |
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Stargate SG-1: Major Dr. Samantha Carter and, to a lesser degree, Dr. Daniel Jackson were often guilty of this. Also Teal'c: |
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Brain often speaks in highly technical terms on Arthur. In fact, it's shown that his parents keep a large dictionary at the dinner table because of it. | |
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Haruhi Suzumiya's Kyon often falls into this during his narration. Yuki will often provide one or two syllable answers to rather important questions, be prompted (usually by Kyon) into giving longer answers, and the longer answers end up in this incomparable form. | |
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Mercurius from Dies Irae is rather infamous for his oftentimes needless verbosity to the point that the narration hangs a lampshade on it, though of course done in his usual fashion: | |
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Cerebus the Aardvark features a character known only as "The Judge", who may just be the walking incarnation of this trope. A seemingly omnipotent being, the judge never actually does anything with his limitless powers and knowledge because he is too busy making long, long, long expository speeches using very big words. How long? In his first appearance, he speaks uninterrupted for five. straight. issues. Though to be fair, he is telling the history of the creation and eventual destruction of the world. These things take time. In a later issue, The Judge appears out of thin air to inform Death that he is about to die. And also that he is actually not Death at all, just delusional. It takes him more words to tell him this than the entire word count of the previous two issues combined. Leading to a Crowning Moment of Funny when "Death's" only response to this verbal tsunami is to say "Well, fuck me," and die. Parmoorians have a well-deserved reputation for long-windedness. "Cerebus usually passes the time counting adverbs." |
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In the Pinky and the Brain episode "TV or not TV" Brain has a brief career as a stand-up comedian involving him insulting the audience by phrasing his insults using Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. The Brain does this constantly, even going so far as to rephrase common expressions with more advanced vocabulary ("The game does not conclude until the woman with the eating disorder ululates.") | |
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Steven Universe: Peridot is constantly talking in this manner. Amethyst finds it hilarious and asks Peridot what she calls various body parts: Pearl does this sometimes as well, because she's The Smart Guy and prone to being overly dramatic. |
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In the Young Wizards series, the wizardry manuals are given to insanely complicated language; it's mind-boggling how an eleven-year-old girl can even hope to understand it. "Temporospatial claudication" indeed! Not unjustified, as these are English translations from a language which was designed from the ground up to describe the (actual, speculative, and alternative) workings of The Multiverse... or more accurately, reality reflects the language. In the first book, the girl spends around a week of study trying to understand the Speech well enough to even cast a simple spell. I'd imagine a year or two spent seriously studying what's basically a truly comprehensive and utterly accurate multidisciplinary textbook whose contents constantly reorganize to be exactly what its owner is currently most suited to learn... could produce mind-boggling results, indeed. | |
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The Mikado: Pooh-Bah "can trace [his] ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule." | |
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Batman: This is a prominent gimmick of the Penguin in almost all of his incarnations. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: This is enforced by the titular duo. In "Lotsa Latkes" they're shown to be keeping a list of words beginning with "s" that kids their age seldom use, and checking them off as they say them. | |
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Clerks had this: | |
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Many songs by At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta veer into this territory - in particular, the groups' frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala tends to use a larger-than-average amount of medical and scientific terms, which is not helped by the occasional bizarre portmanteaus. | |
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This quote from Con Air, which was spoken by Marshal agent Vince Larkin, an obvious poster boy for the trope, to DEA agent Malloy. | |
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Yvonne Barnes from In the 1st Degree engages in this. Of course, she is working for the mayor and she is a witness in a murder trial. Her reputation and image are important to her as a result. | |
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Star Trek: Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation occasionally did this, particularly when attempting humor or referring to an idiomatic expression. For Example: "I could be pursuing an untamed ornithoid without cause." (wild goose chase). It gets lampshaded in Star Trek: First Contact: Star Trek: Voyager: Seven of Nine often addresses Naomi Wildman as "Naomi Wildman, subunit of Ensign Samantha Wildman" instead of "daughter of..." Lampshaded on Star Trek: Discovery when Science Officer Connolly of the Enterprise offers a complicated explanation for a phenomenon, Burnham offers a simpler analogy, and Pike expresses his preference for the latter. |
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Most Wu-Tang Clan members like Method Man, GZA (they call him "the genius" for a reason), The RZA, and Inspector Deck. | |
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Saul from Daughter for Dessert speaks in embellished sentences with lots of big words. | |
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In The Adventure Zone: Dust, Augustus Parsons combines rather grandiloquent verbiage with a slow Southern drawl. Particularly noticeable when describing his "phantasmagoric" nature. | |
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Used frequently on A Bit of Fry and Laurie. This sketch is a good example, as its use of gratuitous linguistics turns what would otherwise have been an unremarkable barber shop sketch into several minutes of hysterical laughter. | |
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Kaeloo: Mr. Cat has the tendency to do this sometimes; for example, he refers to making somebody laugh as "activating their zygomaticus muscles". Of course, nobody understands what he's talking about, since he's Surrounded by Idiots, so he ends up having to explain it in simpler terms. | |
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Project Runway: Designers occasionally note that the erudite Tim Gunn has quite an extensive vocabulary, and he occasionally uses a term they don't know. One episode features a super-cut of Gunn using various ten-dollar words throughout the filming of the season, such as asking the irritated group, "Why is there so much consternation and sturm und drang?" | |
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In the Hacker Diaries, the fictional diaries of Jim Hacker and novelization of the Yes, Minister series, it is stated that he lived out the last of his days in a home for the elderly deranged when "advancing years, without in any way impairing his verbal fluency, disengaged the operation of his mind from the content of his speech." | |
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I, Robot. Dr. Calvin is very much like this in the beginning, though she sort of thaws out. | |
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In one episode of Rizzoli & Isles, Jane lampshades/objects to this, when she and Maura are having lunch at a fancy restaurant while investigating a case. | |
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In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Dodo uses such obscure and strange words that the Eaglet demands that he "speak English" and accuses him of not understanding half of the things coming out of his beak. | |
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Dr. Emmett Lathrop Brown, a.k.a. The Doc, as portrayed in the Back to the Future animated series, is the king of this. The movie version, while prone to Techno Babble, isn't nearly as bad. Jules is also a master at it. | |
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Holofernes and Nathaniel's copious amounts of latin in Love's Labour's Lost also qualifies. | |
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Lackadaisy: Rocky, the majority of the time. Being a two-bit musician with pretentions of being a gangster. This becomes even more noticeable when he's around Freckle, who rarely says more than a couple of words at a time. Mordecai Heller does this as well. It's most pronounced in a side comic featuring his younger self critiquing his little sister's stick figure drawing. Naturally, since she's at best five years old, she has no idea what he's talking about and thinks the big words are funny. As an adult his vocabulary often evokes blank stares. |
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A simple one from Star Wars. The Rebel fighters are warned about the incoming TIEs. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword brings us Beedle the shopkeeper. Talk to him in the day when he's doing his job, and he speaks like every other NPC out there. However, if talk to him at night, when he's not on duty, he suddenly talks in a highly affected accent and starts using words like "tenebrous." If you bring it up to him, he brushes you off. | |
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Whotrek The Ultimate Adventure 1 parodies this in the scene where the characters encounter the Architect, who not only uses grandiose words for absolutely everything but also manages to constantly use the wrong words, making his entire dialogue incomprehensible nonsense. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: Meta-fictional example: books are only written in this type of prose. Actually one of the characters thinks it's less difficult to say "hum" when an unusual word shows up rather than looking it up, with surprisingly good results. Made even weirder by the fact Georgina always speaks in a normal manner. | |
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In Power Rangers Ninja Storm, Monster of the Week Boxing Bop-a-roo had such a bad case of this that Lothor indirectly accused him of making up Perfectly Cromulent Words by starting a "Made-Up Word Jar". On top of that, many other characters suffered from the fact that he Got Me Doing It. | |
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Egon Spengler's penchant for this in The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters is exaggerated from his movie counterpart. | |
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Doctor Emmett Brown from Back to the Future does this occasionally, though it seems to be limited to his past self from the '50s, implying Doc mellowed out at some point over the intervening 30 years. The Animated Series on the other hand, took this trait into overdrive (see "Western Animation" below). | |
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The Brittas Empire: Brittas slips into this when explaining the reviews during "Reviewing the Situation": | |
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Novelist Thomas Mann was, depending on your point of view, famed or notorious for his long and complex sentences. It was joked that for him and his admirers a German sentence less than a half-page long was no proper sentence. For instance, the first sentence of Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull consists of 72 words in the original German. However, when Mann gave a public reading it was very easy to keep track of what he was trying to get across. Leo Tolstoy was a big influence on Mann's work, and that is probably at least a partial explanation, since this trope shows up often in Tolstoy's works, too. | |
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In Major Bummer, one of the people affected by EEMs develops an extremely advanced brain (so advanced that his head balloons to gigantic size to hold it), but this has the side effect of making his already vast command of the English language utterly incomprehensible to all but the most astute of listeners, and even then only those armed with a dictionary. | |
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"Them's Fightin' Herds": In story mode, the player can find a book on the floor in the wrong room of the museum. If you bring it back to the museum's library, the librarian reads its title: “Do the telluric alpaca hermeneutics transpose the peripatetic lautretics of Unicornian philosophy because of the factic iniquity of the non-dogmatic Amaryllian dialogues?� | |
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Doctor Octopus in The Spectacular Spider-Man, especially post-Freak Out. "I cannot believe I once lived in this anemic hovel." | |
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In Magience, Jae uses big words to make other people feel inferior. | |
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Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View has various characters speaking this way, but most notably Kabe, whose only line in the film is a squeaked order for drinks. If you can understand her, it turns out that she is incredibly verbose and grandiloquent, fittingly for a charismatic little thief and con artist. | |
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Jupiter Jones, of The Three Investigators, employs this method of verbal communication habitually, although not necessarily invariably. | |
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Cow and Chicken: In one episode the duo are visited by their black sheep cousin, the Black Sheep, whom everybody treats like a troublemaker. They do so partly because they assume he's a bad person out of stereotypical expectation, and partly because they don't understand his intelligent diction and think he's insulting them. Cow is the only person who's able to see past the ridiculous assumptions. This also happens to Cow herself in an episode where she gets glasses and somehow becomes a genius. |
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Octa in The Surprising Adventures of a Glaceon in Unova talks like this a lot. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: In Daggerfall, Hermaeus Mora, the Daedric Prince of Knowledge, speaks this way. This trait is dropped in later appearances, which give him an almost grandfatherly version of an Evil Sounds Deep voice instead. Lord Rugdumph gro-Shurgak in Oblivion is a victim of this as well, although he never gets it right: The author of the in-game book Liminal Bridges uses exceptionally long, obscure words. To quote the opening sentence: |
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Little Hands, Big Attitude: Tails, being a Child Prodigy, is quite prone to this: in a test the teacher deducted points from him (from a perfect score) because none of his classmates could understand his vocabulary, and he also combines this trope with Technobabble when he plays Scramble. | |
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In Emergency Exit Nyos uses this trope to discourage anyone from speaking to him when he responds at all. However, he will use simpler speech when he wants to be understood. Even his boss has a difficult time with him. | |
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Generation V of Pokémon gives us Shauntal of the Elite Four, who talks like this until you beat her, at which point she simply proclaims you "awesome!". She reverts right back to her normal, diffuse speech right afterward, though. Apparently, she's a writer. | |
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In The DCU, this is a trademark of "Big Words", a member of the Newsboy Legion. And his Marvel Universe counterpart, Jefferson Worthington Sandervilt of the Young Allies. | |
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Futurama: Good old Professor Farnsworth can have this effect when he actually is making sense In another episode, it was turned around on him: |
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Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Examples include "Viktor's more of a physical being. I mean, he's not particularly loquacious"; "Again obvious though potentially problematic". This isn't present in the other films (or the books), though. | |
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The Judge from OFF almost always talks in a sophisticated, eloquent manner. | |
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Hail the Conquering Hero had this exchange: | |
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It's a good idea to keep a dictionary open in another tab while reading A Different Lesson. That said, the…uncommon words are used correctly, and in almost all cases are actually more of a precise fit than their everyday equivalents. In-story, this also applies to Chao's speech patterns because he's from an earlier time. | |
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Kim's Convenience: Mr. and Mrs. Kim (who are Korean-Canadian immigrants) start taking English classes in one episode and show off all the fancy vocabulary they've learned to their daughter Janet. Played for Laughs and downplayed as majority of the words are only super fancy for their standards: | |
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Darths & Droids: Chewbacca speaks in an overly verbose fashion when under the control of the GM, as a result of Jim imbuing him with traits his newly created player character was deficient in, namely wisdom and intelligence. When Ben takes over, he dials this down a little. | |
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Guile from Chrono Cross (almost) always speaks like this. The way he talks about finding a ferryman and a boat to get across the sea is rather wordy. His speech about his 'thirst' for enigmas gets pretty long-winded. |
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Anastasia Burns from The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H. often uses long and flowery words that no second-grader would ever use, let alone in casual conversation. It's a part of her antiquated way of speaking. Mrs. Gunderson lampshades Anastasia's verbosity in "The Heiress Diaries"; when discussing her good grades in English class, she says Anastasia's vocabulary is "too advanced" for her age. Anastasia proceeds to call Mrs. Gunderson an "ignoramus", thereby proving Mrs. Gunderson's point. | |
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A scene in Warriors Orochi had Nobunaga say, "Encircle, eviscerate, and extirpate the odious ophidian!" | |
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Egon Spengler from Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters II Or this one from Ghostbusters: |
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Final Fantasy: Due to her immensely dry dialogue, Shelke from Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus has been classified as this by fanon. Final Fantasy XIV: Urianger does it for even the most basic conversations. While he is indeed very intelligent and a useful source of exposition for the player, he seems to go out of his way to make every explanation he gives as long winded as possible due to his own flair for the dramatic. Several characters often remark that he is want to use ten words where one would suffice. |
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The flavor text for the Magic: The Gathering card Uktabi Kong, apparently meant to convey that he's smarter than the average ape: "I desire the acquisition of a potassium-rich fruit comestible of substantial magnitude." It's a parody of the much loved (and hated) flavor text on Odyssey's Gorilla Titan: "I wanna banana this big!" | |
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Exterminatus Now. Professor Lewis tries to explain a concept to the (somewhat pro)tagonists, and fails utterly. Finally, he went in the exact opposite direction, and summed it up: | |
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"Rejection Slips": In "Learned", the first letter, the poem uses the monorhyme for all nine lines, and using terms like 'Kant's philosophy', 'orthodoxy', and 'eclectic cause', all to say "I'm sorry for not using your submission". | |
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Matsuki from Kunisaki Izumo no Jijou is prone to this with regards to school work. | |
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Questionable Content's Hannelore Ellicot-Chatham will often descend into this, especially if she's having a nervous fit. Faye can also pull it off when she's feeling especially snarky. | |
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Kruppe from the Malazan Book of the Fallen loves to talk in long-winded, complicated sentences stuffed full of words his immediate audience is likely to trip over. He also talks in the third person about himself. Several characters tend to zone out as soon as he opens his mouth. It is part of his Obfuscating Stupidity act, though. | |
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The eponymous Amber Night of Amber Night and the Curse of the Diabolical Pastry Thief has a dazzling lexicon. Among the first attributes described of Moodbeam is "grandiloquent". She and Amber indeed have some grandiloquent exchanges. | |
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The Bash Brothers from Sludge happen to be Genius Bruisers who tend to use words as big as their biceps. Considering that Burke is a lawyer and his brother Monroe is a doctor, this is more or less expected. | |
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Parodied in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), which includes the line "We have traced the roots of Shakespeare's symbolism in the context of a pre-Nietzschean society through the totality of a jejune circular relationship of form, contrasted with a complete otherness of metaphysical cosmologies, and the ethical mores entrenched in the collective subconscious of an agrarian race". The published version of the script contains a footnote: "Don't bother reading that sentence over again. It's covering a costume change and is completely meaningless". | |
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Mary has a tendency to lapse into this in All About Steve when she gets excited. As a dedicated cruciverbalist (a crossword puzzle writer), she has a very varied vocabulary that has a heavy emphasis on obscure vocabulary. | |
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Judge Joe Brown often uses this trope, apparently in an attempt to try to add some class to his "folksy" image (and possibly to intimidate the clueless people who come on his show), but instead, he usually ends up coming across as pompous. | |
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In Jaws Brody snaps when Quint destroys the radio before they can call for help. Smashing the baseball bat on the destroyed radio he condemns Quint for being "certifiable" rather than calling him a more common term such as "crazy" or "insane." | |
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In Sticky Business, the frog agent uses overly formal words when ordering stickers from you. | |
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One FoxTrot strip had Jason making use of a dictionary and a thesaurus so he could tell his sister Paige "your corpulence is downright Brobdingnagian" without fear of reprisal. | |
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Mr. Micawber from David Copperfield is generally regarded as the Trope Codifier. This may be Dickens, but even Micawber's fellow Victorians have trouble understanding what he's trying to say. | |
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Raziel from the Legacy of Kain series is only the worst offender, but all characters are guilty, owing to the series' knack for Shakespearean speech and monologues. To the point that it's jarring and hilarious when Kain is finally so rattled by something that all he can manage is, "What in the hell?" | |
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The Cadanceverse: Twilight uses complex terms and words to describe her magical studies. When Trixie accuses her of doing it just to mess with her, Twilight starts doing exactly that. | |
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In Bookworm, the whole point of the game is to get the player into this way of speaking so as to score higher. Lex the bookworm in Bookworm Adventures often speaks like this; this is, in fact, the whole point of the game, as the longer words you spell, the more damage you inflict on your enemies. There's also the game's finale, where Lex actually uses a slightly shorter version of one of the words mentioned in the trope description to deliver the final blow. See here (major spoiler warning!). | |
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SlipKnot may not be the most sophisticated band in terms of music and subject matter, but that doesn't prevent Corey Taylor from inserting esoteric euphemisms and terminology into otherwise profane and virulently anguished lyrical output. It also provides a stark contrast to their designated contemporaries KoRn, whose lead vocalist Johnathan Davis seldom uses words containing more than two syllables. | |
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One of the many ways Grim mangles the English language on The Thin Blue Line. | |
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An email in one of the computer in Deus Ex: Human Revolution talks about the lack of chairs. And it ends with a line in speech manner contrasting the rest of the email. | |
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Fawlty Towers: In the episode "The Hotel Inspectors", Basil finds himself having to contend with a guest whose use of flowery, overcomplicated language renders him nearly incomprehensible. Representative quote: In "Communication Problems", Polly gets rid of the pushy, selectively deaf Mrs. Richards by asking Manuel to "lend her your assistance in connection with her reservation", knowing that Manuel won't understand. |
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In Superman & Batman: Generations, Lex Luthor says he managed to travel through time with a portal "generated when acetylsalicylic acid is irradiated at a 108 megahertz frequency"... in other words, he "irradiated" some aspirin tablets with an FM radio. Presumably this is a playful nod to Silver Age comics like this one. | |
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Brainiac Five, from Legion of Super-Heroes is another excellent example. Some of the incarnations of him are actually consistently annoyed that he has to "dumb it down" for his fellow Legionnaires. | |
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In Necessary Roughness the coach is laid out with chest pains. He asks his doctor what he has: | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Evil Genius Plankton has a habit of speaking this way. His speaking this way in trying to recruit mooks in a Bad Guy Bar doesn't end well for him. Patrick, surprisingly, talks this way several times, just not to the point seen above. |
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El Goonish Shive: Grace's attempt to make a bit of a political statement in the sketchbook resulted in a bad case of this trope. Susan can fall into this trope, especially with things she isn't comfortable talking about. |
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The villain Hedy Lamarr (That's Hedley!) from Blazing Saddles. | |
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In The Laundry Files, Charles Stross would often pay tribute to Lovecraft by jokingly describing eldritch-related things as "squamous and rugose". Of course, as his works take the Viewers Are Geniuses route, his own characters occasionally dip into this trope as well. | |
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In Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the narrator will use one of these words, and immediately give the more common word. Example: "...transmogrifications (this is a big word for 'changes')." | |
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Unsounded: Duane enjoys using flowery, elaborate language. Flashbacks reveal developed the habit after leaving for Wizarding School and might be doing it to overcompensate for his humble roots; however, he also has a sincere love of theatre, which might colour his diction. | |
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In End Of Infinity, this seems to be Silver's default mode of speech. Per others' request, he attempts to tone it down and speak normally, with questionable success. | |
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Plato from Beetle Bailey has been known to use this, naturally enough since it's part of the stereotype he represents. On one occasion, he used it to gain access to a telephone meant only for official business by expressing his intentions so fancily the secretary didn't realise he was saying he was inviting his buddy over to the bar with the rest of them. | |
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The Engineer in Team Fortress 2 frequently switches between this (when he's explaining his constructs or means of defending himself) and a comparatively more simple way of speaking. | |
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In The Westerner, Lovable Rogue Burgundy Smith will never use a plain word is a three syllable synonym is available. A Running Gag is that he then has to dumb his commentary down so his audience can understand him. | |
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In the episode "Ink and Incapability" of Blackadder the Third, Dr. Samuel Johnson, author of the first English dictionary, speaks just like that ("I celebrated last night the encyclopedic implementation of my pre-meditated orchestration of demotic Anglo-Saxon."). Blackadder resorted to using made-up long words to freak Johnson out in retaliation ("Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation."). | |
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Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic exhibits this trope whenever she's describing anything sciency, often showing great pride at her loquacious explanation. | |
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Doctor Who: The Sixth Doctor took this to ridiculous lengths — and in Pip and Jane Baker scripts, most other characters would start talking like this as well. Pip and Jane Baker were really fond of the phrase "fortuitous would be a more apposite epithet". The Master uses it in "The Mark of the Rani" as well. Of course, the Master as played by Anthony Ainley was always prone to thesaurus abuse. The Sixth Doctor's talent for sounding like he swallowed a thesaurus and a full meal of cured pork haunch shows up a lot in the Big Finish audio dramas. Raised to an art form with the audio drama ...ish. Couple the Sixth Doctor's vocabulary with Gilbert and Sullivan's music and the results are downright hilarious, as evidenced in Part 3 of the Big Finish audio drama Doctor Who and the Pirates. Can anyone say "I am the Very Model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer"? Early Eighties companion Adric does this a couple of times in "Four to Doomsday". Early in the story, he refers to the Milky Way galaxy as "Galaxia Kyklos"; Tegan thinks he's talking about somewhere in Corfu until the Doctor tells her that "Adric's just showing off". Later, while sharing a meal with the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa, Adric asks if anyone will "pass the sodium chloride", by which he means salt. The Twelfth Doctor slipped into this in the Series 10 episode Smile: |
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Project A-Ko. This line from Miss Ayumi in the dub as she's doing a lecture in class. | |
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Gaston Means from Boardwalk Empire. Just for example, instead of "your shoelace is untied", he says "Your left shoelace is in a state of dishabille." The show has several other examples: Arnold Rothstein, Nelson Van Alden, Andrew Mellon, and Valentin Narcisse, but none of them are as bad as Means. | |
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In Central Park, Season 1 "Dog Spray Afternoon", when Shampagne's mood hasn't improved, Bitsy's dog therapist suggest Shampagne should try a radical new treatment called "outdoor movement therapy", which Helen sums it up as walks. | |
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Wordy villain Cat R. Waul in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is often wont to spit out long lines of English loquaciousness, and is often forced to describe his intent in simpler terms. He's voiced by John Cleese. Coincidence?... No. | |
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From Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" | |
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Speech like this is the key joke in many Monty Python's Flying Circus sketches. John Cleese is known to use this in other roles he has held since. In the "Cheese Shop" sketch, the customer is an insufferable intellectual who initially uses the most impenetrable string of Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness to order some cheese that the shop keeper has no idea what he's saying. The customer then translates his statements into an insultingly broad Yorkshire dialect to make himself understood. This is probably why the shopkeeper spends the rest of the sketch deliberately wasting his time. |
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Sturgis Turner from JAG often gets into this trope. | |
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Daredevil: One of the Kingpin's lieutenants speaks like this in Born Again. Like the Sin City example above, this was also written by Frank Miller. It predates it by a number of years, but still. | |
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In Kitty Powers' Matchmaker, Geeks usually speak in overly technical terms. At the end of a date they'll say 'You've won my cardiovascular organ!', for example. | |
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In Stark's War, the worst of the officers Stark deals with speak in a sort of hybrid of abstract military theory and management jargon, dressing some very dumb ideas in very complicated language. Just so long as it sounds impressive, that means they're all military geniuses, right? | |
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The Arts of Dark and Light has Marcus, the son of protagonist Corvus and himself the main character in one of the subsidiary tales. Marcus is schooled as a theologian, and frequently makes use of this trope, as well as Spock Speak, having a tendency to launch into extraordinarily overelaborate and polysyllabic terminology whenever afforded the opportunity. To be fair, he is called out on this several times, and tries to talk more normally as a result. | |
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From At the Mountains of Madness: "The leathery, undeteriorative, and almost indestructible quality was an inherent attribute of the thing's form of organization, and pertained to some paleogean cycle of invertebrate evolution utterly beyond our powers of speculation." | |
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In The Bird Feeder #72, "Defenestration," Lewis attempts to confide in Darryl about his fear of being thrown out of windows, but Darryl misses the point entirely due to his vocabulary not being quite large enough. | |
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Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet: When Ledo wakes up on the eponymous fleet, his mecha needs to analyze the language of the natives. To do so, Ledo grabs the nearest girl, runs away with her on his shoulder, and, just to make her talk some more, touches her ass. What follows is a Expospeak Gag-based Narrative Profanity Filter translation by Chamber to be about "reproduction with one's mother, as well as sanctified excrement". | |
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Or this one from Ghostbusters: | |
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No Strings Attached (2011): Used quite a bit in the jokes of the doctors. | |
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Brian Pillman used to engage in a bit of this. For example, on the October 30, 1995 WCW Monday Nitro, in the promo where Chris Benoit was drafted into the Horsemen, Pillman ranted about how Sting "regaled [his] obsequious lapdogs with [his] reprehensible act."note The night before, at WCW Halloween Havoc 95, Ric Flair had turned heel on Sting in a match against Pillman and Arn Anderson, thus creating a new version of the Horsemen. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: Edd, often to the annoyance of his less-educated peers. In the episode "Mirror, Mirror, On the Ed" where they pretend to be each other, Eddy attempts to mimic Edd in this manner, but fails miserably. |
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The Nomai in Outer Wilds mostly spoke normally (according to your translator device) except when they use figures of speech, which get translated as this — "bitten off a larger portion than I can consume", "pulling my locomotive limb", "on the other appendage" — perhaps to suggest that the idioms they're using are foreign to the player character's species. | |
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Power Rangers RPM's'' Dr. K does this on occasion (i.e. when she's not being blunt), including to hilarious effect in "Ghosts" when she threatens her leader, Colonel Truman, with inserting laxative into his coffee mug, which would lead to a case of explosive diarrhea. | |
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Tahm Kench from League of Legends as part of his Wicked Cultured persona often speaks in such a manner, it also helps him word his offered Deals with the Devil in such as a way as to always benefit him and help sate his endless hunger for souls. | |
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In The Last Boy Scout, the two heroes are getting pummeled by an unusually verbose Mook's large companion, leading Bruce Willis's character to exclaim, "Shit, we're being beat up by the inventor of Scrabble!" | |
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In The Matrix Reloaded, the Architect's dialogue is extremely convoluted and highbrow-sounding, as if the writers deliberately mined a thesaurus for the longest synonyms they could find for every concept he's describing. Justified in that this artificial intelligence is, unlike any other AI, utterly logic/reason-based and lacking in any kind of empathy or social skills (the polar opposite of the Oracle) and uses speech as a type of Intimidation Demonstration. He does seem amused when Neo calls him on using it to avoid a direct question, saying his predecessors took longer to figure it out. Parodied so brilliantly by Will Ferrell in this video from the MTV Movie Awards. | |
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Damien Sandow, the Intellectual Savior of the Unwashed Masses | |
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Sam & Max: Sam, a six-foot canine shamus, tends to express himself in this general manner. The manner tends to annoy his partner. Perhaps his most elegant wordsmithing takes place in this promo. Sam occasionally demonstrates that he is Sophisticated as Hell. |
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Despoilers of the Golden Empire uses tons of scientific language to establish itself as a work of Science Fiction. It's not. | |
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Ralph Rackstraw in H.M.S. Pinafore speaks with exceedingly purple prose for a "humble sailor". | |
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Hop to It portrays Max as this even when he's speaking a second language. | |
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South Park: Spoofed in the episode "Woodland Critter Christmas", where Mousey the Mouse is a parody of the stock "Smart" character in cartoons, complete with comically large glasses and a slavish adherence to this trope. Kenny does this when writing to his friends from Hawaii in "Going Native", complete with sophisticated-sounding adult voiceover. Stan lampshades this Out-of-Character Moment. |
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In Daddy Day Care, Charlie tries to avoid telling his obnoxious former coworker that he and Phil are now running a day care center, and instead says that they "offer management facilitation to, mostly, working professionals." | |
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Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: Uncle's description by Claire when he calls her over to discuss her princess's abilities: | |
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In Dollicious Tiramisu tend to use very rare and pretentious sounding words just to stand out. | |
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American Gods: There's a heroic example with Mr. Ibis, which makes sense since he's Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom. The protagonist Shadow does this occasionally, in moments indicating that he's a Genius Bruiser and not just Dumb Muscle (i.e. referring to sleight-of-hand magic as prestidigitation). | |
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Mr. Longface Caterpillar from the 2009 Strawberry Shortcake movie peppers his speech with overly fancy words, which are translated by Blueberry Muffin. This is inverted at one point when he mentions fool's gold, and Blueberry "translates" this to its official name, iron pyrite. He continues this on the Berry Bitty Adventures show. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, the hyper-intelligent fuzzy monster Molly peppers her speech with big, obscure, or antiquarian words — but she is equally likely to use teenage slang or kindergarten kiddie-speak. Galatea makes an observation of her sister's odd speech patterns here. | |
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Trader Johann from Dragons: Riders of Berk tends toward this trope, much to the chagrin of Hiccup and his friends when they need information from him. Also occasionally crosses over into Deadpan Snarker: | |
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Marcus from Ninja Pizza Girl is absurdly well-spoken and loves bombastic turns of phrase. In a stroke of Irony, the story arc he's part of revolves around him becoming lost for words whenever he tries to confess his feelings for Giselle. Gemma helps him forego what he himself calls "the vulgarity of speech" by making a Grand Romantic Gesture instead. | |
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Ronda Rousey's promo style is this, something Becky Lynch and her fans have a heyday with on Twitter. | |
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The L33t D00d from MegaTokyo has his nigh-impenetrable l337 5p33k translated as grandiose prose. ""j00 90++ @ chO0$3 +3h r19h+ 94M3, 0r 5}{3 w1LL 0wnz0r j00", for example, becomes "You must be committed to the correct game; otherwise, defeat is inevitable". A more literal translation though is: "You gotta choose the right game, or she will own you." |
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Pops up on Buffy the Vampire Slayer from time to time, with requests for a translation from 'Giles-speak'. Fred gets into it as well on occasion on Angel. | |
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On the magic side of the MU coin, we have Doctor Strange. Granted, half the words he uses are made-up, but it's still fun trying to follow him through a convoluted explanation of his spellwork. | |
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Then there's Mordant's Need, a more "realistic" work than the Covenant series in almost every way... except the swearing. (When the local equivalent of a wizard snaps "Excrement of a pig!" he might just be pretentious, but when a couple of rough private soldiers express their frustration by yelling "Fornication!" it's deeply jarring.) | |
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DSBT InsaniT: Robo has an annoyingly verbose vocabulary. | |
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Scanty and Kneesocks in the English dub of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. | |
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The Legend of Spyro: Volteer talks like this, often to the annoyance of the other Dragon Guardians and Sparx, though Spyro somehow has no problem understanding him. Example: Another one from Volteer: Bentley from the original series did this. Or at least, the one from Spyro 3 did. Why, you brazenly avaricious duplicitous, larcenous ursine! I will endeavor to assist you by means of a steady provision of combustible projectiles. |
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The Night Of: One of the young arresting officers writes her report in overly technical language, in an apparent attempt to sound official. Veteran Detective Box tells her to rewrite it in simple language so that a jury can understand it. | |
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Ace Attorney: Luke Atmey from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — Trials and Tribulations combines this with a flair for descriptions that are over-dramatic to the point of obtuseness. Phoenix can usually only manage a rough translation, usually for the benefit of Maya, who is more often totally lost. Also Redd White's fantabulous vocabulosity! And Valant Gramarye, who combines this with alliteration. Apollo even notes that "his overly loquacious manner can get annoying". Wesley Stickler and his penchant for using twenty words to say what that can be said in five deserves a mention too. |
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Yue of Negima! Magister Negi Magi tends to do this on occasion. | |
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The Monster & The Girl: Kenrick almost always favors big words and says almost everything in a long-winded manner | |
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SOSchip: LonelyFox, who is German but is fluent in English (to a self-deprecating extent), types and talks like this — though of course, she talks like this to the extent that a German learning English can talk like this. When asked who she is in the very first chapter by oghond (who has never seen her face or heard her voice before), she responds thusly: This is what eventually tips oghond off to LF's identity, as only LF talks using words like that. In Chapter 2 this tendency of hers is lampshaded by Dr. Vandertramp: |
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The Caged Demonwolf from Empowered, with lots of Added Alliterative Appeal. ("Like unto 80s action-cinema icon Michael Dudikoff, be you a fabled Ninja American, oh jingoistic jackanapes?"). He's doing it on purpose. His Imagine Spots are readily identified because it carries over to everyone's dialogue (even mid-ravishing). | |
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Kin, the yuan-ti from Goblins lapses into this when she's stressed. | |
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River Tam from Firefly occasionally slipped into this, with a mix of Infallible Babble and a banquet's worth of Word Salad. | |
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Parodied temporarily in The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat: The Cat in the Hat speaks like this on occasion, notably from his first meeting with the Grinch until the Grinch starts scrambling his voice with his Vacuu-Sound Sweeper. | |
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Hey Arnold! had Mr. Green run for city councilman against Councilman Gladhand, one of whom's tactics was using big words. Mr. Green even worried he couldn't win the election because he thought he couldn't sound as smart. He does win. | |
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Gus from Drop the Dead Donkey talks exclusively in management jargon; when a builder talks to him in plain speak about work to be done, he has to translate into SL just so Gus can understand him. | |
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Judge Holden from Blood Meridian speaks in very precise English filled with archaic legal terms and sometimes excessively formal language (always referring to others as "principals," for instance). Sometimes he just knows exactly the words to say what he means, but just as often he's speaking to intimidate and confuse the mostly-illiterate louts in his gang. | |
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Family Guy: This trope was subverted in a gag where Peter was watching one of Dennis Miller's famous rants. Stewie does this in the early series; it was even lampshaded by Brian in "Back to the Pilot", where Brian asks Present Stewie if he used a dictionary when he was Past Stewie. Peter develops this trait after he embarks on a journey of self-improvement and returns home as a scholar. His family has no idea what he's talking about. |
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In Daggerfall, Hermaeus Mora, the Daedric Prince of Knowledge, speaks this way. This trait is dropped in later appearances, which give him an almost grandfatherly version of an Evil Sounds Deep voice instead. | |
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Harry Morton on The Burns and Allen Show, almost always lampshaded by George Burns. | |
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Walter "Ramses" Emerson in Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series tends to embody this trope through his younger years, though he (mostly) grows out of it by around age 20, as stated by Amelia in Guardian of the Horizon. Amelia herself could actually fit this trope in many regards, although it may be more her old-fashioned manner of narration than excessive verbosity. | |
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Moonrock on The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show would always do this. When the team went looking for a four-leaf clover to improve Schleprock's bad luck, he exclaimed, "Eureka! A Marsilea quadrifolia!" | |
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In Tarzan of the Apes, Professor Porter considers that using the term "lion" rather than "quadruped of the genus FELIS" to be slang. Eventually his secretary Mr. Philander complains about his overly fussy attitude, and the professor replies "Look here, Skinny Philander, if you are lookin' for a scrap, peel off your coat and come on down on the ground, and I'll punch your head just as I did sixty years ago in the alley back of Porky Evans' barn." Philander is relieved that his old friend is still there under all the pomp. | |
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In one episode of My Family, Abi applies for a job in a library and memorises an entire dictionary to help her prepare for the interview. She doesn't get the job because the interviewer doesn't understand a word she's trying to say. | |
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In one of Katieforsythe's Sherlock Holmes fanfictions Watson actually uses the word sesquipedalian to describe Holmes. | |
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Lear Dunham from Broken Saints is guilty of this at times, especially in the Grand Finale. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: Seven of Nine often addresses Naomi Wildman as "Naomi Wildman, subunit of Ensign Samantha Wildman" instead of "daughter of..." | |
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Contraptionology!: Characters suffering from convolvement tend to become excessively verbose when discussing their projects and scientific genius. Applejack's version of this, such as her describing subatomic theory and the Clopper (Doppler) effect through a vocabulary consisting mainly of country aphorisms, is the source of a lot of the story's humor. | |
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People with a Romance language (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese...) as a first language can sometimes unintentionally sound like this when speaking English. Modern English results from a combination of Germanic and Romancenote mostly from medieval French roots. While words from Germanic roots are shorter and more common, Romance words are longer and more formal, but, since they're closer from their own language, Romance-language speakers sometimes instinctively choose them. Conversely, they often miss the point when confronted with a loquacious fictional character, wondering why, say, Reed Richards reads like their butcher. | |
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The infamous The Eye of Argon uses absurdly obscure words whenever possible, sometimes whimsicorically making them up outright. It also uses even normal words incorrectly (grammatically AND semantically), when it manages to even spell them right. "Many-fauceted scarlet emerald" is a particularly... colorful... example. The extremely-thinly-veiled discussion of the hero's current hit points also comes to mind. | |
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Notoriously, one group of characters in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant were described as being "featureless and telic, like lambent gangrene." | |
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How I Met Your Mother: The group have a conversation about Robin's new Argentinean boyfriend who can't speak English that well. When he arrives at the bar, they continue the conversation, but with longer words so he doesn't understand (he doesn't: he thinks they're talking about baseball). Funny, because their responses weren't all that different from before: The part of the conversation right before this, that is Robin explaining that she still likes Gael, includes the lines: Ted talks like this all the time, especially during the college flashbacks, because he is — in the other characters' own words — douchy like that. And his on-again/off-again high school/college girlfriend, Karen, talks like this all the time too. Also in "Old King Clancy" while talking about GNB's firing room, the ETR, or Employee Transition Room: |
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Walter White of Breaking Bad occasionally lapses into this, though thankfully he's pretty good at keeping a lid on it. | |
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Epic LLOYD uses some complicated vocabulary in one of his Dis Raps For Hire in response to a quartet of people mocking a victim's dyslexia. | |
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At one point in Burger Shop, the player character decides to take a cruise, only for the ship to hit what burger-making robot BurgerTron refers to as a "non-frontal synoptic scale low-pressure system over tropical waters with organized convection and definite cyclonic surface wind circulation." In other words, a rather big typhoon. | |
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Johann Krauss from Hellboy II: The Golden Army. | |
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The Bob & Ray character Dr. Eugene Stapley, the 'Word Wizard', is a broad parody of this trope... at times possibly just a bit broader than intended. After Bob suggests 'plunging straight into the mail': "Male and female serve only to differentialize one type of living creature from another. Now, undoubtedly some male members of the animal kingdom would be softer, say, to plunge into than others; but in any coincidence, the act of literally plunging into the male would in all probabilitiness be injureful!" | |
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Ratatouille: Ego's ending narrative is incredibly hard to understand as a kid. Then again, he's a sophisticated critic. | |
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Frasier: A lot of humor comes from Niles and especially Frasier speaking very formally: Daphne's boorish brother Simon can be pretty flowery as well, either naturally or possibly in a Stealth Parody of Frasier. Normally such a character would have Delusions of Eloquence, but he's perfectly capable of the real thing. |
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Genshiken uses this for its Idiosyncratic Episode Naming. This is done as if the episodes were a college thesis paper; it's done for the whole first season — hinted to be done by the President (who might or might not have cameras hidden everywhere) — while more normal episode naming is done during season two. | |
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Kingdom Hearts: Luxord from makes his entrance declaring the Heartless boss he summons a "veritable maelstrom of avarice". In Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, he combines this trope with alliteration and a hefty amount of gambling-related puns. Every character whose consciousness derives (either fully or partially) from a Xehanort will inevitably resort to this, usually for the purpose of monologuing. Master Xehanort gets to deliver a particularly-sesquipedalian two-word insult - "Feckless neophyte" - though the rest of the Xehanort incarnations each have their own chance to try their hands at it. |
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Ishi tends to do this in Bulletstorm. His partner... doesn't. | |
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And then you have John Morrison, who when not being scripted by someone else always talks like this, seemingly rambling on and segueing from topic to topic without any real connection to the original topic whatsoever. Which is made to be even more ridiculous when compared to his (former) tag team partner, "The Miz", who speaks in a very basic fashion (who used the Marine rallying cry "OOO-RAH!" as a period)note Which makes no sense since he was never actually in the Marines. Morrison is a blatant Captain Ersatz of Jim Morrison who tended to talk like this in interviews. | |
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Near the end of the first Mega Man Legends game, we get this: | |
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In the Just Cause episode "The Last to Know": Note that Ted rollerblades everywhere. Even indoors. When Peggy tells Ted that her car was towed, he replies: | |
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Succession: A running gag in the third season has Greg's academic uncle frequently using arcane adjectives such as "histrionic" and "intransigent." The dim-witted Greg just stares blankly at him and pretends to understand. | |
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Hill Street Blues: At roll call, Sgt. Esterhaus sounds more like an academic orator than a police sergeant, never letting one simple word suffice when he can demonstrate the extent of his vocabulary by using four obscure, polysyllabic ones, preferably of Latin or French origin, instead. | |
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Boyd Crowder in Justified is very fond of this trope, often using it to prove to others that just because he's from a backwoods Kentucky town, he's not stupid. | |
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Spock still does this in Insontis II even after being age-regressed. In the 12th chapter, he says, "Such error is understandable." | |
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Dexter's Laboratory: Dexter is fond of doing this with Expospeak Gag: Making a to-do list that included the chore "Aquatic Nutrifacation" instead of "Feed Fish". Referring to the wheels on a car as "High Output Torquifiers". Unique in that this is how a young boy would actually do something like this. "Torquifiers" is a Neologism, a suffix hastily slapped on thesaurus-poop. |
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In his interviews and documentaries Orson Welles somehow manages to be a Sesquipedalian Loquacian Deadpan Snarker. | |
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Wikipedia can be said as being infamous for this, which is ironic given how the site actually discourages using highfalutin words in an excessive manner. This Wikipedia article is about men having erections in their sleep. Sort of justified in that the author would take great pains not to sound vulgar. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the effects of tetrodotoxin, the poison found in pufferfish: This is pretty typical for articles dealing with the symptoms of various toxins. At least they're (usually) courteous enough to pothole the more arcane words so you can just click them and say to yourself "oh, is that all that means?" Has anyone googled the Wikipedia explanation for "Yo Mom" jokes before? Look up Ebonics, African-American Vernacular English, on Wikipedia. Reading it without grinning is tougher than it sounds. |
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Adam (2009) when he gets onto the topic of astronomy. | |
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Muppet Classic Theater featured a particularly multiloquent gendarme in the included interpretation of "The Supreme Potentate's Neoteric Habiliments". | |
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Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation occasionally did this, particularly when attempting humor or referring to an idiomatic expression. For Example: "I could be pursuing an untamed ornithoid without cause." (wild goose chase). It gets lampshaded in Star Trek: First Contact: | |
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