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Strange-Syntax Speaker
- 535 statements
- 99 feature instances
- 133 referencing feature instances
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); }) This trope deftly describes when wily characters can't understand unusual dialog delivered brazenly by an alien or outsider. The twist? While words are apprehensible, the text's syntax — significant rules regulating grammar generation — remains reclusive. Perhaps paired words will always alliterate, or orators must mangle texts to fit fifteen-syllable sentences. Regrettably, results sound strange, appearing as garbled gibberish to the central characters, but basic sentence syntax conforms coherently to the strange speaker. Critical concept: attending audience can clearly surmise sense after attaining strange syntax's prime principles. Axiom acclimation therefore turns into intriguing core component of overture. Can come as a radical result of other trope titled, fittingly, Future Slang, since Strange Syntax Speaker shows principal precepts are aggressively changed, contrasted against adversary trope's trend of only exchanging expressions. Frequently, fictional and alien words will be broached to trouble the turgid fiction further. Sometimes, said words will be begrudgingly obscure, of course clouding the talking attempts anon. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })When wacky rules run obscenely obtuse, strange speaker can commonly appear as Cloudcuckoolander, cackled at and/or otherwise made misunderstood. Regular recurring scenario sets protagonists pursuing education, enlightenment of obscure syntax system for finding important information. If intended, it's Idiosyncratic Elected Elocution. Compare, contrast against alternatives Conlang (covering artificial argots overall) or singsong Starfish Language; look also at vanilla Verbal Tic trope. Intermittently, Iambic pentameter presents itself in many media as a common case. May overlap with You No Take Candle. Zestful? Zero Wingrish would compare concepts. If indigenous syntax strange to travelers, this trope can convene. Excessive examples abound; avoid listing live representations resultant, otherwise Ocular Gushers guaranteed following futility. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Examples: |
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Dropped link to AxeCrazy: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to JonathanCoulton: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to TerseTalker: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to TheCrownJewels: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
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Dropped link to TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemenBlackDossier: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
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Dropped link to ThirdPersonPerson: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to TranslatorMicrobes: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker | processingUnknown |
TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemenBlackDossier | |
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TheCrownJewels | |
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DragonBallZ | |
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JediOutcast | |
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StarControlII | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1b21bd20 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1b21bd20 | comment |
Terror Island applies alliteration when flaunting flashbacks. | |
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1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1b21bd20 | featureConfidence |
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| TerrorIsland | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1b21bd20 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1d01b4d6 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1d01b4d6 | comment |
Dogberry's lines in Much Ado About Nothing are a strange mix of Malaproper and odd syntax. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1d01b4d6 | featureApplicability |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1d01b4d6 | featureConfidence |
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| Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1d01b4d6 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1fcdbe32 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1fcdbe32 | comment |
In The Phantom Tollbooth, when the Humbug knocks over the stalls in the marketplace at Dictionpolis and the words spill out everywhere, the salesmen are unable to voice their complaints in correct word order. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1fcdbe32 | featureApplicability |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1fcdbe32 | featureConfidence |
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| The Phantom Tollbooth | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_1fcdbe32 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2275c659 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2275c659 | comment |
In House M.D., House once had a patient with a form of aphasia who replaced every word with a word somehow related to but separate from what he meant. The connections were fuzzy enough that they got him to correctly say yes and no, and finally figured out that when he said "bear" he meant "bipolar", as in "polar bear". This makes it a Curse of Babel plot. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2275c659 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2275c659 | featureConfidence |
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| House | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2275c659 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_231c22b6 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_231c22b6 | comment |
In an episode of Titus, Christopher knows Erin is hiding something because, when she's lying, words not flow from her mouth good. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_231c22b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_231c22b6 | featureConfidence |
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| Titus | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_231c22b6 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2442edf2 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2442edf2 | comment |
Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn gives us Binabik, whose slightly unusual speech is partly defined by an excessive use of the present participle to the exclusion of the present tense. For example, he would say "is being" instead of simply "is". | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2442edf2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2442edf2 | featureConfidence |
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| Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2442edf2 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_280423b4 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_280423b4 | comment |
Friendship Is Magical Girls: As a shout out to the Kraang, all the members of the Infestation talk like this, constantly repeating themselves, and using "that which is" and "the one who is" to describe every little thing. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_280423b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_280423b4 | featureConfidence |
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| Friendship Is Magical Girls (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_280423b4 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_299616c8 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_299616c8 | comment |
In Phoenix Rising, there's an insectoid mook that speaks like this. For instance, telling a colleague he's complaining about something that's actually good fortune, it says, "Gladness I feel; wisdom for you, likewise should you feel." It's not clear whether this is a personal idiosyncrasy or something it shares with the rest of its race, as it's the only one of its race to get any lines. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_299616c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_299616c8 | featureConfidence |
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| Phoenix Rising | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_299616c8 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2ae406c1 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2ae406c1 | comment |
The Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri Expansion Pack Alien Crossfire gives us Progenitors, who toe the line between this and Aliens Speaking English due to Translation Convention. Alien-to-alien speech is rendered as normal, fluent language. However, alien-to-human communication is impossible until you research a tech which allows in-universe translation, which renders Progenitor speech with a syntax roughly equal to "Subject: Statement". The Rikti in City of Heroes speak like this as well. They are a race of telepaths and it is only late in the game during certain missions that one gets the new Mark III translator and can not only suddenly speak English properly, but can now understand it just as well. He finds our childish vulgarities rather quaint. Star Control's Daktaklakpak provide a similar challenge — their language is so mathematical and formulaic that initially the tech teams don't even think they're sentient. Once you obtain a translator their speech remains formulaic and stilted: "Statement: Daktaklakpak are superior to Humans. Interrogation: What are Humans doing in our space?" |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2ae406c1 | featureApplicability |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2ae406c1 | featureConfidence |
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| Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2ae406c1 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2ba3e3b9 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2ba3e3b9 | comment |
In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, some of the demons you can talk to will speak this way. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2ba3e3b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2ba3e3b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2ba3e3b9 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2c9df9c5 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2c9df9c5 | comment |
As established in Transformers: The Movie, Junkions on the television series speak in odd mishmashes of television quotes. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2c9df9c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2c9df9c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transformers: The Movie | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_2c9df9c5 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_32066b8e | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_32066b8e | comment |
V for Vendetta: V's vernacular vigilantly vexes viewers via very variant vocabulary.note 'V' tends to speak in words featuring the letter V, although not exclusively. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_32066b8e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_32066b8e | featureConfidence |
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| VForVendetta | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_32066b8e | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_331e009 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_331e009 | comment |
Zer0 of Borderlands 2 has a weird habit of speaking in Haikus. While he mostly uses it for combat taunts, even his idle dialog is in haikus. In Tales from the Borderlands, he has a conversation with Moxxy where each sentence is a line from a haiku. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_331e009 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_331e009 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Borderlands 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_331e009 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_35a060cc | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_35a060cc | comment |
Played for comic effect in Airplane!! with Jive. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_35a060cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_35a060cc | featureConfidence |
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| Airplane! | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_35a060cc | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_398fa2b2 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_398fa2b2 | comment |
In an episode of Sonic Sat AM, the wizard Lazar speaks similarly to Yoda, reversing nouns and verbs. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_398fa2b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_398fa2b2 | featureConfidence |
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| Sonic SatAM | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_398fa2b2 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3b34143f | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3b34143f | comment |
The house elves (Dobby, Winky, etc.) in Harry Potter use a strange syntax, particularly in the way they conjugate verbs ("You is being a very bad house elf!"). They mostly come off sounding uneducated, which is hardly surprising given their slave status in the books. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3b34143f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3b34143f | featureConfidence |
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| Harry Potter | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3b34143f | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3b7abee2 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3b7abee2 | comment |
The G-Man from Half-Life places emphasis on unusual syllables and pauses for breath in all the wrong places, though his diction is perfect and his vowels are never mispronounced. All of this is used to suggest that he's some sort of Eldritch Abomination making a less-than-perfect imitation of humanity. The Vortigaunts on the other hand, pronounce words fairly clearly but use strange word ordering and exhibit a few quirks such as placing "the" in front of someone's name. When speaking in their own language, both participants speak simultaneously, so they also step on the ends of each other's sentences in English every now and then. |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3b7abee2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3b7abee2 | featureConfidence |
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| Half-Life (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3b7abee2 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3bcd84f2 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3bcd84f2 | comment |
Thorn of Final Fantasy IX uses inverted sentences, like Yoda (and usually says the same thing Zorn says, except Zorn doesn't invert them.) | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3bcd84f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3bcd84f2 | featureConfidence |
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| Final Fantasy IX (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3bcd84f2 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3f047e59 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3f047e59 | comment |
Our Miss Brooks: Dumb Jock Stretch Snodgrass's grammar is atrocious. It's a toxic combination of current slang, malapropisms and double negatives. Stretch's brother Bones is the same way. |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3f047e59 | featureApplicability |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3f047e59 | featureConfidence |
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| Our Miss Brooks | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_3f047e59 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4110f1d0 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4110f1d0 | comment |
The Great Mizuti from the first Baten Kaitos speaks in the third person, insists on being called "the Great Mizuti," rarely conjugates "to be" (i.e. "the Great Mizuti be invincible!") and will occasionally string together two related words after the end of a sentence. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4110f1d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4110f1d0 | featureConfidence |
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| Baten Kaitos (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4110f1d0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_42329cd | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_42329cd | comment |
In Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, the Kron speak in a strange, slightly garbled format, saying things like "Die you now!" You can ask them about it, at which point they'll maintain that they're speaking perfectly normal English and you're the ones saying it wrong. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_42329cd | featureApplicability |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_42329cd | featureConfidence |
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| Sonic Chronicles (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_42329cd | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_444f7f18 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_444f7f18 | comment |
Kushiel's Legacy: the second book, Kushiel's Chosen, gives us Illyrian pirate Kazan Atrabiades, who often ends his sentences with a repetition of an earlier pronoun used. Granted, he's not speaking his native language when he does this. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_444f7f18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_444f7f18 | featureConfidence |
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| Kushiel's Legacy | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_444f7f18 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4505668c | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4505668c | comment |
Mannie in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress speaks (and narrates the entire novel) without using articles or other "nulls" (what he considers meaningless words), as well as Russian and Australian slang. This is justified by both the fact that the Russian language lacks articles, and the People's Republic of China in this future now has an empire which includes both Australia and much of the Asian part of the Soviet Union, and has shipped a lot of 'undesirables' off to the moon. Mannie, being a native "Loonie", has ancestry from both on both sides, and has picked up shards of every language sent to Luna. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4505668c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4505668c | featureConfidence |
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| TheMoonIsAHarshMistress | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4505668c | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_468bebb0 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_468bebb0 | comment |
Both Foul Ole Ron in the Discworld novels and Mrs Tachyon in Johnny and the Bomb speak in nonsense phrases, a favorite being "Millenium hand and shrimp". Whether their mutterings actually have a coherent underlying syntax is undetermined, though Gaspode (Ron's talking dog) clearly understands him. 'Millenium hand and shrimp' itself apparently came from a Chinese food menu and the lyrics to "Particle Man" in a random word selector. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_468bebb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_468bebb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Discworld | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_468bebb0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4b47f278 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4b47f278 | comment |
Finnegans Wake. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4b47f278 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4b47f278 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Finnegans Wake | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_4b47f278 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5209cf3c | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5209cf3c | comment |
Similarly, Fawful of the Mario & Luigi series has this practically programmed into the speech center of his brain... | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5209cf3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5209cf3c | featureConfidence |
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| Mario & Luigi (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5209cf3c | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_526d4c5c | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_526d4c5c | comment |
Knights of the Old Republic: The player character can speak almost every alien language, so you get subtitles even for what the Jawas on Tatooine are saying. Nevertheless, even subtitled, their syntax is rather strange. The HK-47 and the HK-50 models preface their sentences with a description. However, they are perfectly capable of modulating their speech synthesizers to add inflection when necessary for infiltration. |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_526d4c5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_526d4c5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_526d4c5c | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_537fae8b | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_537fae8b | comment |
If the winquotes in Street Fighter X Tekken are any indication (since the crossover retains the characters' usual behaviors), this is Yoshimitsu's usual speech pattern. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_537fae8b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_537fae8b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Street Fighter X Tekken (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_537fae8b | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_53a0bd8b | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_53a0bd8b | comment |
The Twilight Zone (1985) episode "Wordplay" is based on this trope. A man has an unusual experience: The people around him are suddenly using words incorrectly, e.g., saying "dinosaur" when they mean "lunch". More and more words get replaced, until other people's speech becomes complete gibberish to him. He ends up having to re-learn the meaning of words out of a children's book. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_53a0bd8b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_53a0bd8b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| TheTwilightZone1985 | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_53a0bd8b | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5518c88f | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5518c88f | comment |
In Starpocalypse, God is mocked for this. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5518c88f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5518c88f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Starpocalypse (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5518c88f | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5755b96a | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5755b96a | comment |
In The Order of the Stick, orcs (and half-orcs) seem to always refer to themselves in the third person, pay no heed to verbal conjugation, skip copulas and use lower-case everywhere until...: | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5755b96a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5755b96a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Order of the Stick (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5755b96a | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5804255f | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5804255f | comment |
The Trofts from The Cobra Trilogy. [The noun, they place it first]. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5804255f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5804255f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Cobra Trilogy | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5804255f | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_59303db8 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_59303db8 | comment |
"All of the little sisters (actually clones) of Misaka Mikoto in A Certain Scientific Railgun speak in a flat monotone with added self-narration at the end", says Misaka giving an accurate description of her style of speech. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_59303db8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_59303db8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Certain Scientific Railgun (Manga) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_59303db8 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5c897f4a | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5c897f4a | comment |
In Schlock Mercenary, the space station manager Mister Aliss speaks in a very odd dialect characterized by using a lot of unnecessary "-ings", poor understanding of metaphors, and painfully arranged grammar (example: "You suspect? What is of the suspectings?"). From that Tagon identifies him (wrongly) as a part of a class of diplomats raised underwater among the Celeschul native species who grew up speaking Galstandard Peroxide, the preferred language of aquatic sophonts. The Oafa from the "Broken Wind" arc have their own dialect, although Tagon refers to it as a form of Peroxide accent early on. It features a number of odd terms that appear to derive from common English idioms translated via the mindset of flying jellyfish creatures ("perambulatory limb-stretchings" instead of "stretch their legs", for example, or "underfooted" instead of "crushed underfoot"), and uses somewhat odd plural forms for verbs ("And general, thank you for the most persuasive invitings of your famously victorious son to lead it") and time units ("fifty-two of centuries"). |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5c897f4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5c897f4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5c897f4a | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5e967287 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5e967287 | comment |
Nobody Dies: Arael's speech can be... interesting to try to decipher, as it appears to say the same thing in multiple ways simultaneously: | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5e967287 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5e967287 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nobody Dies / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5e967287 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5f76cba1 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5f76cba1 | comment |
The New 52 Teen Titans featured Thrice, a team of three metahuman brothers with powers that involve merging into one body and splitting apart. The combined form always uses first person and first person plural pronouns, possessives, etc., referring to "I/We", "me/us", and so on. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5f76cba1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5f76cba1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| New 52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_5f76cba1 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6051ce49 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6051ce49 | comment |
Ars and the other imps, a small dragonic species, from Gaia always speak in third-person, future tense. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6051ce49 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6051ce49 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gaia (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6051ce49 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6457caa7 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6457caa7 | comment |
For what it's worth, none of the others in the sect use the same syntax, nor does Jaqen once he assumes another disguise. According to The World of Ice & Fire, this is actually a cultural speech pattern typical to the Free City of Lorath, where Jaqen claims to hail from. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6457caa7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6457caa7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The World of Ice & Fire | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6457caa7 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_68781099 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_68781099 | comment |
The teens from A Clockwork Orange speak Nadsat, which includes Cockney rhyming slang, Anglicized Russian and German words, and a generally unusual syntax, such as Dim's assertion, "Bedways is rightways now..." | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_68781099 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_68781099 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Clockwork Orange | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_68781099 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6909a0a9 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6909a0a9 | comment |
A peripheral alien character in the Star Trek: Titan series of books started out speaking in mangled syntax (which makes no sense; as a Starfleet officer, he would have a universal translator). He's since stopped doing that. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6909a0a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6909a0a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: Titan | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6909a0a9 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6a3fbb7c | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6a3fbb7c | comment |
The Transformers: Robots in Disguise: Rum-Maj speaks in the strange way, with odd choices of words to suggest she not a native speaker of Cybertronix. Comparing that to her partner Wreck-Gar, he is coming off as the coherent one. As time goes by, Rum-Maj's statements become more grammatically correct. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6a3fbb7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6a3fbb7c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Transformers: Robots in Disguise (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6a3fbb7c | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6d8311c4 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6d8311c4 | comment |
In Pokémon Gold and Silver and the remakes, there was a Team Rocket member who spoke this way and said that he would quit Team Rocket and return to his homeland and family. In Black and White (and the sequels), you find him in Unova with his family... and he still does the weird syntax. Apparently he's not actually Eloquent in My Native Tongue. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6d8311c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6d8311c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_6d8311c4 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_70814599 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_70814599 | comment |
Stargate SG-1: Colonel Jack O'Neill does this the second time he has the Ancients' knowledge downloaded into his brain. Subverted in that he does it just to make fun of Daniel's lack of clarity when trying to explain what Jack has been doing. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_70814599 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_70814599 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| StargateSG1 | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_70814599 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7668653b | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7668653b | comment |
Another example would by the hanar, who cannot speak as humans do at all; their translators/synthesizers render their bioluminescent language into spoken words. Furthermore, all their translated speech is exceedingly polite, avoids reference to personal pronouns like "I" and they will rarely use their names unless introducing themselves, preferring "it" or "this one", i.e. "This one hopes that we will converse again soon." They have two names, in fact; a Face Name (for public use) and a Soul Name (for family and very close friends). You can ask them about it and they will say that they consider it extremely rude and egotistical to use the first person with somebody they know only on a Face Name basis. Hanar who interact with other races have to take special classes so as to learn not to be offended. The hanar believe that they were taught language by the Protheans; in Mass Effect 3, your Prothean squadmate is not impressed. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7668653b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7668653b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| MassEffect3 | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7668653b | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7988cb68 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7988cb68 | comment |
Mass Effect: A minor alien species, the elcor, exhibit a form of this. They all speak in a deep monotone, and preface their sentences with the tone it would be in, e.g. "genuine enthusiasm," followed by a sentence with no noticeable enthusiasm. They talk like that with non-elcor because they express emotion through pheromones, subsonics, and extremely subtle body language that most other species can't detect. It's apparently part of the ubiquitous Translator Microbes. Another example would by the hanar, who cannot speak as humans do at all; their translators/synthesizers render their bioluminescent language into spoken words. Furthermore, all their translated speech is exceedingly polite, avoids reference to personal pronouns like "I" and they will rarely use their names unless introducing themselves, preferring "it" or "this one", i.e. "This one hopes that we will converse again soon." They have two names, in fact; a Face Name (for public use) and a Soul Name (for family and very close friends). You can ask them about it and they will say that they consider it extremely rude and egotistical to use the first person with somebody they know only on a Face Name basis. Hanar who interact with other races have to take special classes so as to learn not to be offended. The hanar believe that they were taught language by the Protheans; in Mass Effect 3, your Prothean squadmate is not impressed. Though really combination of Terse Talker and Motor Mouth, Mordin Solus verges into this due to combination of elided speech and Techno Babble. |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7988cb68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7988cb68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mass Effect (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7988cb68 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7d8c61a2 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7d8c61a2 | comment |
Gree droids from Star Wars: The Old Republic speak Basic, but with bizarre turns of phrase. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7d8c61a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7d8c61a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Wars: The Old Republic (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_7d8c61a2 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_85776bf3 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_85776bf3 | comment |
Back in the original Pony POV Series, the Blank Wolf in the Shining Armor Arc is an odd example. Every word it speaks is represented by being written backwards, with the first (technically last) letter always capitalized. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_85776bf3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_85776bf3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pony POV Series / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_85776bf3 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_8889af94 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_8889af94 | comment |
Michael Harris in Newhart speaks in alliteration. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_8889af94 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_8889af94 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Newhart | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_8889af94 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_892a1541 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_892a1541 | comment |
My Family and Other Animals: Spiro's sentences tend to be fairly well-arranged — well within the syntactical range of normal English — except for pluralisation applied entirely at random. Phrases like "I remembers when you were fineds two thousands drachmas for dynamitings fish" are par for the course. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_892a1541 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_892a1541 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| My Family and Other Animals | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_892a1541 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_8d318bad | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_8d318bad | comment |
Nya! Of Super Mario RPG, both this and a regular Verbal Tic, Bowyer uses. Nya! | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_8d318bad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_8d318bad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Super Mario RPG (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_8d318bad | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_90d45233 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_90d45233 | comment |
The cockroaches from The Underland Chronicles tend to mix up verb and subject placement as well as using repetition of certain sentence elements, such as "Do it, I can, do it," or "be small Human, be?" | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_90d45233 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_90d45233 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Underland Chronicles | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_90d45233 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_90f42a9b | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_90f42a9b | comment |
In The Wheel of Time, everyone raised in Illian uses "do be" instead of conjugating "is". Taraboners often state everything as questions, yes? |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_90f42a9b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_90f42a9b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Wheel of Time | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_90f42a9b | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_94773662 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_94773662 | comment |
Although he is American, Cheyenne from Once Upon a Time in the West has an unusual way of speaking, as though English wasn't his first language. This is because English was not supposed to be his first language. He was written as a Mexican, Manuel Gutierrez, but Sergio Leone decided that Jason Robards couldn't play one convincingly. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_94773662 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_94773662 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Once Upon a Time in the West | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_94773662 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9d47a2a2 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9d47a2a2 | comment |
A Song of Ice and Fire: Jaqen H'ghar has an odd type of Third-Person Person in which he never uses "I", but instead will use "A Man". So like instead of saying "I'm called Jaqen H'ghar" he would say "A man calls himself Jaqen H'ghar". He even seems to do something similar when referring to other people: When addressing Arya Stark, the one character he has extensive dialogue with, he will say "a girl" instead of "you". This may be because he belongs to a faction whose members give up their personal identities, although it seems more like an individual Verbal Tic. For what it's worth, none of the others in the sect use the same syntax, nor does Jaqen once he assumes another disguise. According to The World of Ice & Fire, this is actually a cultural speech pattern typical to the Free City of Lorath, where Jaqen claims to hail from. It's also a bit similar to the manner of speaking in Slaver's Bay where Unsullied soldiers and other slaves, for example Missandei, refer to themselves in third person and with "this one" while they use the correct second and third person for anyone else. Salladhor Saan is using the gerund form whenever the situation is calling for a verb, as well as being another Third-Person Person. |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9d47a2a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9d47a2a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Song of Ice and Fire | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9d47a2a2 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9f89a5f0 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9f89a5f0 | comment |
In the English translations of the latest Pokémon games, International Police Agent Looker speaks with weird syntax, suggesting that his native tongue is not the local language in Sinnoh or Unova; he averts this in Kalos, giving us a likely candidate for his native region. This is not present in the Japanese versions. In Pokémon Gold and Silver and the remakes, there was a Team Rocket member who spoke this way and said that he would quit Team Rocket and return to his homeland and family. In Black and White (and the sequels), you find him in Unova with his family... and he still does the weird syntax. Apparently he's not actually Eloquent in My Native Tongue. Gold and Silver also has Earl, teacher at the Pokemon School, who speaks in a manner similar to Yoda. For example, when you first meet him, he asks you "Hello! You are trainer? Battle Gym Leader, win you did?" |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9f89a5f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9f89a5f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pokémon (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9f89a5f0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9fb9bec4 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9fb9bec4 | comment |
In Outsider, the insectoid Umiak's speech is translated in a rambling manner with several redundancies, an artifact of the Umiak language's stack construct. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9fb9bec4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9fb9bec4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outsider (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9fb9bec4 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_a46c9a7a | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_a46c9a7a | comment |
Blindfold, from the X-Men, speaks rather oddly, usually by putting too many polite phrases in her speech, and when referring to locations when using her psychic powers. It doesn't help that half the time she's talking to her invisible friend Cipher Selfsame trope also applies to Warlock somewhat. |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_a46c9a7a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_a46c9a7a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| X-Men (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_a46c9a7a | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ae285944 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ae285944 | comment |
The Sheriff of Rottingham from Robin Hood: Men in Tights starts transposing his words whenever he starts to get angry. Usually he just transposes a word or two ("Over that boy hand!"). But when Robin and Marian kiss during the banquet he completely loses it: | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ae285944 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ae285944 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Robin Hood: Men in Tights | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ae285944 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ae369c06 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ae369c06 | comment |
In A Clockwork Orange, the gang's "Nadsat" slang often involves unusual word order, conjugation and word choice in addition to the mostly Russian-based slang words. The film's version is less pronounced than the book's, since the viewer only has about 90 minutes to become accustomed to it. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ae369c06 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ae369c06 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Clockwork Orange | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ae369c06 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b2f9ae08 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b2f9ae08 | comment |
In the Pony POV Series Chaos Verse, Nightmare Phobia StaRtS TalKIng lIKe ThiS after she hits her Villainous Breakdown. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b2f9ae08 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b2f9ae08 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pony POV Series Chaos Verse (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b2f9ae08 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b30ae4db | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b30ae4db | comment |
Game of Thrones: Jaqen H'ghar refers to everyone―first, second, or third person―by indefinite phrases such as "a man" or "a girl", although sometimes he suffers from Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping such as when he says "And you pour water for one of them now. Why is this right for you and wrong for me?" | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b30ae4db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b30ae4db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Game of Thrones | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b30ae4db | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b97f910f | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b97f910f | comment |
Backwards sentences its all speaks Time About It's 2: Zombies Vs. Plants from Warp Thyme. * Thyme Warp from Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time speaks all its sentences backwards. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b97f910f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b97f910f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_b97f910f | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_bc848d30 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_bc848d30 | comment |
In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Pickles", a supposed error in SpongeBob's Krabby Patty order causes him to get mixed up with everything, including his sentences. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_bc848d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_bc848d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| SpongeBob SquarePants | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_bc848d30 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_bcfb0368 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_bcfb0368 | comment |
R'amey Holl, a member/warrior of the Green Lantern Corps, speaks/communicates in a dual way that leaves multiple interpretations/readings for each of her sentences. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_bcfb0368 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_bcfb0368 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| GreenLantern | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_bcfb0368 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c41c3b5b | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c41c3b5b | comment |
Invincible also brings us Octoboss, the crime lord from "another world" who's been terrorizing Earth for several decades. Syntax and prepositions are completely beyond him. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c41c3b5b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c41c3b5b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Invincible (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c41c3b5b | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c4282b71 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c4282b71 | comment |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Young Kettle Corn, from/Marks and Recreation on/Oft talks in haiku. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c4282b71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c4282b71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c4282b71 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Doctor Who: In "Vengeance on Varos", Sil has a quirky translator which results in sentences such as, "Like this Governor we do not. Replace you must arrange most soon," and "Intolerable all of this Doctor being allowed to live!" In "Utopia", the alien Chantho begins every sentence with Chan, and ends it with Tho. Apparently, to not do this is rude, the equivalent of swearing in her language. (Compare Japanese use of keigo words such as desu or -masu.) This also means that she says her name as "Chan-Chantho-Tho". |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c43df4d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c43df4d8 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c4771251 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c4771251 | comment |
Spook from the first Mistborn trilogy speaks really oddly in the first book, using a nigh-incomprehensible form of street slang. In one scene the whole crew gets in on it, much to Breeze's annoyance. Amusingly enough, by the time of Wax and Wayne, his guttural street slang is considered to be the Classical Tongue. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c4771251 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c4771251 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mistborn: The Original Trilogy | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c4771251 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c511c682 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c511c682 | comment |
In the original Astérix and the Britons, all the Britons came off as this, due to speaking in French but keeping the words in the English order. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c511c682 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c511c682 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Asterix (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_c511c682 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cb9f31ea | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cb9f31ea | comment |
Fnarf of The Bard's Tale had a tendency to speak with alliteration. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cb9f31ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cb9f31ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Bard's Tale (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cb9f31ea | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ccd1ec22 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ccd1ec22 | comment |
Zig Zag the Grand Vizier from The Thief and the Cobbler speaks entirely in rhyme. Since he's voiced by Vincent Price, it's all kinds of awesome. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ccd1ec22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ccd1ec22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Thief and the Cobbler | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ccd1ec22 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cd7bf8e3 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cd7bf8e3 | comment |
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany, a novel that's all about language, a privateer, called Butcher, never uses the words "I" or "you". Which is strange to start with, but when Wong, the language expert, is intrigued, and decides to try and help him with this problem, the results are, at first, truly strange, as Butcher struggles to figure out how to use these words properly. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cd7bf8e3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Babel-17 | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cd7bf8e3 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cf9a66d6 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cf9a66d6 | comment |
Most aliens in Retief speak in odd ways. The example of the Groaci. To begin all sentences with either abstract nouns or verbs in the infinitive. |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cf9a66d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cf9a66d6 | featureConfidence |
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| Retief | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_cf9a66d6 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d28045f2 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d28045f2 | comment |
The 456 from Torchwood: Children of Earth seem to have shades of this in the beginning. They speak in a way that is intelligible but reinforces their creepiness. The civil servant who deals with them is suitably freaked. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d28045f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d28045f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Torchwood: Children of Earth | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d28045f2 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d3490e5e | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d3490e5e | comment |
Vodka from Every Button Hurts the Other Guy has a poor (and inconsistent) grasp of English syntax, but is exceptional in this despite his being from a comic with an international cast. Russel sometimes gets in on this too, which is especially odd considering he's one of the few native English speakers. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d3490e5e | featureApplicability |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d3490e5e | featureConfidence |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d3490e5e | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d38fe19f | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d38fe19f | comment |
In one episode of Star Wars: Clone Wars, Yoda uses a Jedi Mind Trick to get one of Padmé's guards to agree with him. Hysterically, this leads to the guard talking in the same way as him. Padmé sees right through it, but goes along with it. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d38fe19f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d38fe19f | featureConfidence |
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| Star Wars: Clone Wars | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d38fe19f | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d3c4b794 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d3c4b794 | comment |
My Bride is a Mermaid: Shark Fujishiro speaks as if all sentences are questions. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d3c4b794 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d3c4b794 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d3c4b794 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d46cc708 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d46cc708 | comment |
Ed on Ed, Edd n Eddy was known for this. In Ed's case, it's less that he uses a strange syntax and more that he's a Cloudcuckoolander and borderline idiot who has his brain rotted from too much TV. Rolf, having immigrated from somewhere vaguely in Eastern Europe, typically has his speech peppered with a series of culturalisms that may or may not even make sense in his native land. Occasionally though, he speaks sentences that are grammatically correct but so awkwardly worded (usually with a complete lack of pronouns, or redundant words that would typically get skipped) that they make little sense to a casual listener, such as this instance where he saw Eddy plummeting at them in a suit of armor made from an old pot-bellied stove. |
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1.0 | |
| EdEddNEddy | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d46cc708 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d63abde4 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d63abde4 | comment |
In Shatterpoint, the natives of Mace Windu's homeworld Haruun Kal place the subject last — "Go now to the jungle, I" — when speaking Basic. When Mace, who previously visited the world as a teenager, uses what he remembers of the local language, the Translation Convention renders his words in the same order. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d63abde4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d63abde4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shatterpoint | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_d63abde4 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_db94eca4 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_db94eca4 | comment |
In the Guardians of the Galaxy miniseries Guardians of Infinity, Aerolite of the Guardians of 1000 AD has strange speech patterns which he blames on his Translator Microbes. "Fighting is not on my list of liking things. But it is on my list of things I am good at doing." | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_db94eca4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_db94eca4 | featureConfidence |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_db94eca4 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ddb7ff4e | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ddb7ff4e | comment |
The first book from the Eisenhorn trilogy gave us the alien Saruthi, who did this when they spoke English Gothic. Ironically, that was probably the least strange thing about them. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ddb7ff4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ddb7ff4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Eisenhorn | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ddb7ff4e | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_de8ae019 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_de8ae019 | comment |
Star Carrier: A small example with the Agletsch, although this is more a feature of their translation devices. Specifically, their questions are statements with a "yes-no" added at the end. It's not much different from an English sentence ending in "isn't it?", although that implies that the Agletsch are unable to ask an open-ended question. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_de8ae019 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_de8ae019 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Carrier | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_de8ae019 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_dffd2bcf | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_dffd2bcf | comment |
Transformers character Weirdwolf, like Yoda, backwards, he speaks. Also reversing standard sentence structure, Decepticon Pretender Monster Slog is. Freelance Peace-Keeping Agent Death's Head who was introduced in the Transformers comics turns most of his statements into questions by adding the word "yes" to the end, yes? Statement: On his reappearance in the later end of the run, Shockwave began prefacing every statement based on what he was doing. |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_dffd2bcf | featureApplicability |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_dffd2bcf | featureConfidence |
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| The Transformers / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_dffd2bcf | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e0213763 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e0213763 | comment |
The Emps from Ultima VII; passive voice seems to be what is always used by them. Also, the gargoyles, who drop pronouns and only use infinitive-form verbs. At one point in U7, it is mentioned that they speak in "Gargish syntax" to preserve their cultural ties. |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e0213763 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e0213763 | featureConfidence |
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| Ultima VII (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e0213763 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e293455a | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e293455a | comment |
In "Bargaining", the first episode of Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Buffybot's punning still isn't working properly. When she finally stakes the vamp, she exclaims, "That'll put marzipan in your pie plate, bingo!" Perhaps it was stuck on dadaist humor. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e293455a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e293455a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BuffyTheVampireSlayer | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e293455a | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e6267766 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e6267766 | comment |
Star Wars Legends: In Shatterpoint, the natives of Mace Windu's homeworld Haruun Kal place the subject last — "Go now to the jungle, I" — when speaking Basic. When Mace, who previously visited the world as a teenager, uses what he remembers of the local language, the Translation Convention renders his words in the same order. |
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| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e6267766 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e6267766 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Wars Legends (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e6267766 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e68decb8 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e68decb8 | comment |
Star Control's Daktaklakpak provide a similar challenge — their language is so mathematical and formulaic that initially the tech teams don't even think they're sentient. Once you obtain a translator their speech remains formulaic and stilted: "Statement: Daktaklakpak are superior to Humans. Interrogation: What are Humans doing in our space?" | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e68decb8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e68decb8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Control (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e68decb8 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e7e37776 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e7e37776 | comment |
River Tam from Firefly. It's uncertain whether she's speaking from some consistent internal syntax, or her dialogue is a result of her traumatic background. It generally sounds like she automatically says whatever pops into her head before her thoughts are finished. Simon says something to that effect in one episode. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e7e37776 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e7e37776 | featureConfidence |
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| Firefly | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e7e37776 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e9e2b5e9 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e9e2b5e9 | comment |
Starslip: after a conversation with Mr. Jinx about how laughably simple human languages are, a fellow Cirbozoid speaks with total disregard for word order. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e9e2b5e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e9e2b5e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_e9e2b5e9 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ec2778cb | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ec2778cb | comment |
In Home, the Boov (especially Oh) regularly mix up tenses, verbs, nouns, and English grammar in general with phrases like "Can I come in to the out now?" and "It should to hover much better now." | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ec2778cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ec2778cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Home | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ec2778cb | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ecccafaa | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ecccafaa | comment |
The Fireflies of Spooky Swamp from Spyro: Year of the Dragon speak entirely in haiku. Moneybags even adopts this manner of speech when he asks for gems to open a bridge in the level. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ecccafaa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ecccafaa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Spyro: Year of the Dragon (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ecccafaa | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_eef69f10 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_eef69f10 | comment |
In the very first regular Sherlock Holmes short story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", Holmes identifies the writer of a letter as German (which language has a somewhat fluid word order) by the sentence "This account of you we have from all quarters received." Holmes explains this deduction by saying that speakers of the other major European languages are, in general, not so "discourteous", in his words, to their verbs. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_eef69f10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_eef69f10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sherlock Holmes | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_eef69f10 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ef076a36 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ef076a36 | comment |
Star Trek: Voyager. In "Nemesis", Chakotay is shot down in the middle of a war zone, and is aided by the human-looking Defenders who speak in a Geoffrey Chaucer-like dialogue evoking heroic fantasies in their fight against the Always Chaotic Evil Kradin. The Reveal is that Chakotay has been captured and is undergoing propaganda brainwashing to turn him into a Defender. Whether the Defenders dialogue is due to translation issues or something to do with the process is not revealed, but Chakotay is shown talking the same way as the brainwashing takes effect. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ef076a36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ef076a36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ef076a36 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_f3c58c73 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_f3c58c73 | comment |
Lampshaded with the Dangling Participle in King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow: | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_f3c58c73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_f3c58c73 | featureConfidence |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_f3c58c73 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fa5e90fd | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fa5e90fd | comment |
The Rikti in City of Heroes speak like this as well. They are a race of telepaths and it is only late in the game during certain missions that one gets the new Mark III translator and can not only suddenly speak English properly, but can now understand it just as well. He finds our childish vulgarities rather quaint. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fa5e90fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fa5e90fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fa5e90fd | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fb83eb7b | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fb83eb7b | comment |
In The Sword of Truth, Adie never declines the verb "be". It is a trait of her home language. Others from the same land were shown to speak in a similar manner, but occasionally use ordinary grammar. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fb83eb7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fb83eb7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| TheSwordOfTruth | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fb83eb7b | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fe4e78cd | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fe4e78cd | comment |
In the Dwarf Fortress Let's Play Bravemule, this is the way all of the dwarves talk, in order to cement the impression that they are a totally different culture. It's combined with alien terminology, for example "elf" seems to stand for everything that is an enemy or related to such, "dreg" would be a pariah and "clod" a non-pariah dwarf. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fe4e78cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fe4e78cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_fe4e78cd | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_feb442b4 | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_feb442b4 | comment |
Selfsame trope also applies to Warlock somewhat. | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_feb442b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_feb442b4 | featureConfidence |
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| NewMutants | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_feb442b4 | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ff9ab17f | type |
Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
| Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ff9ab17f | comment |
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Darmok", Captain Picard is stranded with an alien who speaks a language composed entirely of figurative phrases. The Universal Translator gets their literal meaning just fine, but without knowing the stories they're alluding to, it's impossible to decipher what they're actually talking about. | |
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| Star Trek: The Next Generation | hasFeature |
Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_ff9ab17f |
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