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Contrast with SpySpeak. JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary could be considered a subtrope.
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Contrast with SpySpeak. JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary could be considered a subtrope. Compare JobMindsetInertia.
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* Tyranno in the English dub of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' refers to his friends by army ranks, the school as a base of operations, and his dorm room as HQ. He also uses military slang at every opportunity. (In the original Japanese, he was a dinosaur-themed duelist with a VerbalTic).
* In the ''Manga/SgtFrog'' manga (at least in the English version), Keroro refers to Aki Hinata as "General Mom" frequently in early chapters.
* In the ''Manga/SgtFrog'' manga (at least in the English version), Keroro refers to Aki Hinata as "General Mom" frequently in early chapters.
* In the ''Manga/SgtFrog'' manga (at least in the English version), Keroro refers to Aki Hinata as "General Mom" frequently in early chapters.
* Tyranno in the English dub of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' refers to his friends by army ranks, the school as a base of operations, and his dorm room as HQ. He also uses military slang at every opportunity. (In the original Japanese, he was a dinosaur-themed duelist with a VerbalTic).
* Tyranno in the English dub of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' refers to his friends by army ranks, the school as a base of operations, and his dorm room as HQ. He also uses military slang at every opportunity. (In the original Japanese, he was a dinosaur-themed duelist with a VerbalTic).
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villains the Trigger Twins talk almost exclusively like characters from a [[TheWestern Western]] movie.
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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villains the Trigger Twins talk almost exclusively like characters from a [[TheWestern Western]] movie.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'': The town crier still prefixes all of his speech with "Hear ye, hear ye!" even when off duty.
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* OlderThanRadio: Creator/CharlesDickens' character Mr. Lilyvick, in ''Nicholas Nickleby'', a water-rate collector who uses references to pipes, taps etc. in his "normal" conversation.
* Siuan Sanche in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' grew up a fisherwoman before becoming Aes Sedai, so she always uses fishing jargon and metaphors. Perrin is the same with blacksmith lingo.
* Siuan Sanche in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' grew up a fisherwoman before becoming Aes Sedai, so she always uses fishing jargon and metaphors. Perrin is the same with blacksmith lingo.
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* The infamous WeatherReportNarration quote from ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'' ("The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.") is sometimes interpreted this way. A reader [[WhatAreRecords who grew up in the age of digital television]] might well interpret that as the grey-hat hacker protagonist looking up at a beautiful clear blue sky and being unable to think of a description that didn't involve a screen of some sort, and conclude he'd been spending too much time in his HackerCave instead of getting out in the fresh air. [[{{Zeerust}} But the book was written in the 1980s]], and he's actually describing [[CyberPunkWithAChanceOfRain a gloomy, overcast sky]].
* {{Discussed}} in ''[[Creator/GKChesterton The Paradoxes of Mr Pond]]''.
-->'''Pond:''' Men may argue ''for'' principles not entirely their own, for various reasons; as a joke in a rag debate, or covered by professional etiquette, like a barrister, or merely exaggerating something neglected and needing emphasis; long before we come to those who do it hypocritically or for hire. A man can argue ''for'' principles not his own. But a man cannot argue ''from'' principles not his own; the first principles he assumes, even for sophistry or advocacy, will probably be his own fundamental first principles. The very language he uses will betray him. That Bolshevist bookseller professed to be a ''bourgeois''; but he talked like a Bolshevist about a ''bourgeois''. He talked about exploitation and the class-war. So you tried to imagine yourself a Socialist; but you did not talk like a Socialist. You talked about the Social Contract, like old Rousseau.
* {{Discussed}} in ''[[Creator/GKChesterton The Paradoxes of Mr Pond]]''.
-->'''Pond:''' Men may argue ''for'' principles not entirely their own, for various reasons; as a joke in a rag debate, or covered by professional etiquette, like a barrister, or merely exaggerating something neglected and needing emphasis; long before we come to those who do it hypocritically or for hire. A man can argue ''for'' principles not his own. But a man cannot argue ''from'' principles not his own; the first principles he assumes, even for sophistry or advocacy, will probably be his own fundamental first principles. The very language he uses will betray him. That Bolshevist bookseller professed to be a ''bourgeois''; but he talked like a Bolshevist about a ''bourgeois''. He talked about exploitation and the class-war. So you tried to imagine yourself a Socialist; but you did not talk like a Socialist. You talked about the Social Contract, like old Rousseau.
* The infamous WeatherReportNarration quote from ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'' ("The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.") is sometimes interpreted this way. A reader [[WhatAreRecords who grew up in the age of digital television]] might well interpret that as the grey-hat hacker protagonist looking up at a beautiful clear blue sky and being unable to think of a description that didn't involve a screen of some sort, and conclude he'd been spending too much time in his HackerCave instead of getting out in the fresh air. [[{{Zeerust}} But the book was written in the 1980s]], and he's actually describing [[CyberPunkWithAChanceOfRain a gloomy, overcast sky]].
* OlderThanRadio: Creator/CharlesDickens' character Mr. Lilyvick, in ''Nicholas Nickleby'', a water-rate collector who uses references to pipes, taps etc. in his "normal" conversation.
* {{Discussed}} in ''[[Creator/GKChesterton The Paradoxes of Mr Pond]]''.
-->'''Pond:''' Men may argue ''for'' principles not entirely their own, for various reasons; as a joke in a rag debate, or covered by professional etiquette, like a barrister, or merely exaggerating something neglected and needing emphasis; long before we come to those who do it hypocritically or for hire. A man can argue ''for'' principles not his own. But a man cannot argue ''from'' principles not his own; the first principles he assumes, even for sophistry or advocacy, will probably be his own fundamental first principles. The very language he uses will betray him. That Bolshevist bookseller professed to be a ''bourgeois''; but he talked like a Bolshevist about a ''bourgeois''. He talked about exploitation and the class-war. So you tried to imagine yourself a Socialist; but you did not talk like a Socialist. You talked about the Social Contract, like old Rousseau.
* Siuan Sanche in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' grew up a fisherwoman before becoming Aes Sedai, so she always uses fishing jargon and metaphors. Perrin is the same with blacksmith lingo.
* OlderThanRadio: Creator/CharlesDickens' character Mr. Lilyvick, in ''Nicholas Nickleby'', a water-rate collector who uses references to pipes, taps etc. in his "normal" conversation.
* {{Discussed}} in ''[[Creator/GKChesterton The Paradoxes of Mr Pond]]''.
-->'''Pond:''' Men may argue ''for'' principles not entirely their own, for various reasons; as a joke in a rag debate, or covered by professional etiquette, like a barrister, or merely exaggerating something neglected and needing emphasis; long before we come to those who do it hypocritically or for hire. A man can argue ''for'' principles not his own. But a man cannot argue ''from'' principles not his own; the first principles he assumes, even for sophistry or advocacy, will probably be his own fundamental first principles. The very language he uses will betray him. That Bolshevist bookseller professed to be a ''bourgeois''; but he talked like a Bolshevist about a ''bourgeois''. He talked about exploitation and the class-war. So you tried to imagine yourself a Socialist; but you did not talk like a Socialist. You talked about the Social Contract, like old Rousseau.
* Siuan Sanche in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' grew up a fisherwoman before becoming Aes Sedai, so she always uses fishing jargon and metaphors. Perrin is the same with blacksmith lingo.
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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Miss Brooks discusses grammar and parts of speech on and off the job.
* Near the end of an episode of ''Series/TheSopranos'', Tony tells a guy that a job might involve "getting messy. Real wet work." The FBI agents listening prick up their ears, only to realize a few seconds later he's asking someone to fix his burst water heater.
* ''Series/TheWire'':
** A gangbanger talks on the phone about "capping his dawg's ass". The police bring him in on murder charges, only to realize that he was talking about putting down an actual dog.
** When ProfessionalKiller Snoop is in the market for a nail gun, she's confused about what she should buy until the salesman starts using firearms terms like "caliber" to describe a model. She perks up and exchanges lingo with the salesman before handing him a wad of bills. When Chris asks what she bought, she rattles off the nail gun's attributes as if it's some kind of badass machinegun.
* In ''Series/SpinCity'', after it's revealed that one of the mayor's associates is, in fact, a mafioso, he mentions that he first suspected something when said associate invited the mayor to go fishing with, "Let's go whack some fish."
* Near the end of an episode of ''Series/TheSopranos'', Tony tells a guy that a job might involve "getting messy. Real wet work." The FBI agents listening prick up their ears, only to realize a few seconds later he's asking someone to fix his burst water heater.
* ''Series/TheWire'':
** A gangbanger talks on the phone about "capping his dawg's ass". The police bring him in on murder charges, only to realize that he was talking about putting down an actual dog.
** When ProfessionalKiller Snoop is in the market for a nail gun, she's confused about what she should buy until the salesman starts using firearms terms like "caliber" to describe a model. She perks up and exchanges lingo with the salesman before handing him a wad of bills. When Chris asks what she bought, she rattles off the nail gun's attributes as if it's some kind of badass machinegun.
* In ''Series/SpinCity'', after it's revealed that one of the mayor's associates is, in fact, a mafioso, he mentions that he first suspected something when said associate invited the mayor to go fishing with, "Let's go whack some fish."
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* In the first episode of ''Series/TheTroop'', a student's vocational test suggested he'd become an accountant. The student used accounting terms while voicing his objections to this.
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* Doctor Hourani, in ''Series/{{House}}'', does this in a hospital and to a co-worker (namely, well, House). Instead of saying "I must be crazy" or "I must be hallucinating", he says "I must be having a complex partial seizure...".
* In ''Series/HankZipzer'', Hank's father Stan is a sports journalist and tends to express everything in terms of sports metaphors.
* In ''Series/HankZipzer'', Hank's father Stan is a sports journalist and tends to express everything in terms of sports metaphors.
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* Doctor Hourani, Sometimes happens in ''Series/{{House}}'', does this in a hospital and ''{{Series/Bones}}''. It’s not unknown for Brennan to a co-worker (namely, well, House). Instead of saying "I must be crazy" or "I must be hallucinating", he says "I must be having a complex partial seizure...".
* In ''Series/HankZipzer'', Hank's father Stan is a sports journalist and tends to express everything in terms of sports metaphors.bring up anthropological explanations for things even when she isn’t working.
* In ''Series/HankZipzer'', Hank's father Stan is a sports journalist and tends to express everything in terms of sports metaphors.
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* Sometimes happens in ''{{Series/Bones}}''. It’s not unknown for Brennan to bring up anthropological explanations for things even when she isn’t working.
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* Sometimes happens In ''Series/HankZipzer'', Hank's father Stan is a sports journalist and tends to express everything in ''{{Series/Bones}}''. It’s terms of sports metaphors.
* Doctor Hourani, in ''Series/{{House}}'', does this in a hospital and to a co-worker (namely, well, House). Instead of saying "I must be crazy" or "I must be hallucinating", he says "I must be having a complex partial seizure...".
* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Miss Brooks discusses grammar and parts of speech on and off the job.
* Near the end of an episode of ''Series/TheSopranos'', Tony tells a guy that a job might involve "getting messy. Real wet work." The FBI agents listening prick up their ears, only to realize a few seconds later he's asking someone to fix his burst water heater.
* In ''Series/SpinCity'', after it's revealed that one of the mayor's associates is, in fact, a mafioso, he mentions that he first suspected something when said associate invited the mayor to go fishing with, "Let's go whack some fish."
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Played for gross-out laughs in one episode. A surgeon eating lunch refers to cutting his food as a "lateral incision", which disgusts Jake Sisko so much that he runs out of the room, thinking he's going to throw up. Luckily, though, he doesn't.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': Hoshi is a linguist, and in "Two Days and Two Nights", she uses "learned several new conjugations" as a jokey UnusualEuphemism for a one-night stand.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** While the doctor doesn't usually do this, in "Body and Soul", he mentions a man who kissed him "using his face as a tongue depressor".
** B'Elanna Torres is an engineer, and again she doesn't normally talk this way, but in "Lineage", she makes an analogy by comparing genetic engineering (which she wanted to do to her and Tom Paris's unborn daughter) to using tools to fix a machine.
--->'''Tom''': "She's notunknown for Brennan a machine; she's our daughter!"
* In the first episode of ''Series/TheTroop'', a student's vocational test suggested he'd become an accountant. The student used accounting terms while voicing his objections to this.
* ''Series/TheWire'':
** A gangbanger talks on the phone about "capping his dawg's ass". The police bringup anthropological explanations him in on murder charges, only to realize that he was talking about putting down an actual dog.
** When ProfessionalKiller Snoop is in the market forthings even when a nail gun, she's confused about what she isn’t working.should buy until the salesman starts using firearms terms like "caliber" to describe a model. She perks up and exchanges lingo with the salesman before handing him a wad of bills. When Chris asks what she bought, she rattles off the nail gun's attributes as if it's some kind of badass machinegun.
* Doctor Hourani, in ''Series/{{House}}'', does this in a hospital and to a co-worker (namely, well, House). Instead of saying "I must be crazy" or "I must be hallucinating", he says "I must be having a complex partial seizure...".
* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Miss Brooks discusses grammar and parts of speech on and off the job.
* Near the end of an episode of ''Series/TheSopranos'', Tony tells a guy that a job might involve "getting messy. Real wet work." The FBI agents listening prick up their ears, only to realize a few seconds later he's asking someone to fix his burst water heater.
* In ''Series/SpinCity'', after it's revealed that one of the mayor's associates is, in fact, a mafioso, he mentions that he first suspected something when said associate invited the mayor to go fishing with, "Let's go whack some fish."
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Played for gross-out laughs in one episode. A surgeon eating lunch refers to cutting his food as a "lateral incision", which disgusts Jake Sisko so much that he runs out of the room, thinking he's going to throw up. Luckily, though, he doesn't.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': Hoshi is a linguist, and in "Two Days and Two Nights", she uses "learned several new conjugations" as a jokey UnusualEuphemism for a one-night stand.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** While the doctor doesn't usually do this, in "Body and Soul", he mentions a man who kissed him "using his face as a tongue depressor".
** B'Elanna Torres is an engineer, and again she doesn't normally talk this way, but in "Lineage", she makes an analogy by comparing genetic engineering (which she wanted to do to her and Tom Paris's unborn daughter) to using tools to fix a machine.
--->'''Tom''': "She's not
* In the first episode of ''Series/TheTroop'', a student's vocational test suggested he'd become an accountant. The student used accounting terms while voicing his objections to this.
* ''Series/TheWire'':
** A gangbanger talks on the phone about "capping his dawg's ass". The police bring
** When ProfessionalKiller Snoop is in the market for
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* Nate Logan from the ''VideoGame/{{SSX}}'' series, a cornfed ranch hand from Colorado, often says things like "Durn horse threw a shoe!" after a wipeout.
* Nate Logan from the ''VideoGame/{{SSX}}'' series, a cornfed ranch hand from Colorado, often says things like "Durn horse threw a shoe!" after a wipeout.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', Ronnie Raymond is a chemistry teacher who uses sports lingo in his classes, greatly confusing the students.
* Tom Tucker in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' still speaks like a news reporter even while not reporting the news.
* Hermes Conrad of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' infuses his everyday language with references to bureaucracy. He also throws in semi-fabricated Jamaican idioms.
-->'''Hermes:''' Requisition me a beat!
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Many examples, mostly from [[CountryMouse Applejack]]. As a farm pony, she frequently uses [[TalksLikeASimile farming-themed similes and metaphors]], many of which involve apples; in "The Cutie Map Part 2", she calls them "countryisms", and there appears to be a connection between her ability to make "countryisms" and her other farming talents, since she loses her ability to talk like that when her cutie mark's taken away.
* Tom Tucker in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' still speaks like a news reporter even while not reporting the news.
* Hermes Conrad of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' infuses his everyday language with references to bureaucracy. He also throws in semi-fabricated Jamaican idioms.
-->'''Hermes:''' Requisition me a beat!
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Many examples, mostly from [[CountryMouse Applejack]]. As a farm pony, she frequently uses [[TalksLikeASimile farming-themed similes and metaphors]], many of which involve apples; in "The Cutie Map Part 2", she calls them "countryisms", and there appears to be a connection between her ability to make "countryisms" and her other farming talents, since she loses her ability to talk like that when her cutie mark's taken away.
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* Hermes Conrad of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' infuses his everyday language with references to bureaucracy. He also throws in semi-fabricated Jamaican idioms.
-->'''Hermes:''' Requisition me a beat!
-->'''Hermes:''' Requisition me a beat!
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* Tom Tucker in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' still speaks like a news reporter even while not reporting the news.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', Ronnie Raymond is a chemistry teacher who uses sports lingo in his classes, greatly confusing the students.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Many examples, mostly from [[CountryMouse Applejack]]. As a farm pony, she frequently uses [[TalksLikeASimile farming-themed similes and metaphors]], many of which involve apples; in "The Cutie Map Part 2", she calls them "countryisms", and there appears to be a connection between her ability to make "countryisms" and her other farming talents, since she loses her ability to talk like that when her cutie mark's taken away.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', Ronnie Raymond is a chemistry teacher who uses sports lingo in his classes, greatly confusing the students.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Many examples, mostly from [[CountryMouse Applejack]]. As a farm pony, she frequently uses [[TalksLikeASimile farming-themed similes and metaphors]], many of which involve apples; in "The Cutie Map Part 2", she calls them "countryisms", and there appears to be a connection between her ability to make "countryisms" and her other farming talents, since she loses her ability to talk like that when her cutie mark's taken away.
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** Sometimes happens when a student initiates a Rebuttal Showdown in ''2'' or ''V3'' (the minigame doesn't exist in ''1''). For example, Ultimate Photographer Mahiru Koizumi declares "Your reasoning is out of focus!"
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* Very true in the military. It's not the bathroom, it's the "latrine" or "head". It's not the floor, it's the "deck".
* The old saying "swear like a sailor" is completely true. Some retired Navy personnel retain and use some very, ah, colorful and inventive profanities when injured, angry, or frustrated. It's not "left" and "right", it's "port" and "starboard". And they are not windows, they are portholes and skylights.
* Anyone who works with children for a living can find it ''very'' hard to leave their "teacher voice" at work.
* Strippers will do this. They generally refer to the panties worn over a thong as "bottoms" or "shorts" and bras/corsets/whatever as "tops". Sentences like "yeah we take our bottoms off" (when said by a non-nude dancer) and "I need a new top" (when in the lingerie section) can cause lots of questions to be asked.
* When such terms are used as a means to identify an in-group, this can be referred to as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth shibboleth]] as per the story told in the Bible. In sociology, any ritual, custom, or speech used to this purpose can be considered a shibboleth.
* The old saying "swear like a sailor" is completely true. Some retired Navy personnel retain and use some very, ah, colorful and inventive profanities when injured, angry, or frustrated. It's not "left" and "right", it's "port" and "starboard". And they are not windows, they are portholes and skylights.
* Anyone who works with children for a living can find it ''very'' hard to leave their "teacher voice" at work.
* Strippers will do this. They generally refer to the panties worn over a thong as "bottoms" or "shorts" and bras/corsets/whatever as "tops". Sentences like "yeah we take our bottoms off" (when said by a non-nude dancer) and "I need a new top" (when in the lingerie section) can cause lots of questions to be asked.
* When such terms are used as a means to identify an in-group, this can be referred to as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth shibboleth]] as per the story told in the Bible. In sociology, any ritual, custom, or speech used to this purpose can be considered a shibboleth.
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* Very true in In the military. It's military, it's not the bathroom, it's the "latrine" or "head". It's not the floor, it's the "deck".
* The old saying "swear like a sailor" is completely true. Some retired Navy personnel retain and usesome very, some, ah, colorful and inventive profanities when injured, angry, or frustrated. It's not "left" and "right", it's "port" and "starboard". And they are not windows, they are portholes and skylights.
* Anyone who works with children for a living can find it''very'' hard to leave their "teacher voice" at work.
* Stripperswill do this. They generally refer to the panties worn over a thong as "bottoms" or "shorts" and bras/corsets/whatever as "tops". Sentences like "yeah we take our bottoms off" (when said by a non-nude dancer) and "I need a new top" (when in the lingerie section) can cause lots of questions to be asked.
* When such terms are used as a means to identify an in-group, this can be referred to as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth shibboleth]] as per the story told in the Bible. In sociology, any ritual, custom, or speech usedto for this purpose can be considered a shibboleth.
* The old saying "swear like a sailor" is completely true. Some retired Navy personnel retain and use
* Anyone who works with children for a living can find it
* Strippers
* When such terms are used as a means to identify an in-group, this can be referred to as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth shibboleth]] as per the story told in the Bible. In sociology, any ritual, custom, or speech used
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* Falkner and his father Walker in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', both of which are Flying-type Gym Leaders who use mainly avian Pokémon, are rather fond of using figures of speech involving birds ([[HoldYourHippogriffs adapted to]] Franchise/{{Pokemon}}]]) such as "don't count your Pidgeys before they hatch" or "Early Spearow gets the Caterpie".
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* Falkner and his father Walker in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', both of which are Flying-type Gym Leaders who use mainly avian Pokémon, are rather fond of using figures of speech involving birds ([[HoldYourHippogriffs adapted to]] Franchise/{{Pokemon}}]]) Franchise/{{Pokemon}}) such as "don't "Don't count your Pidgeys before they hatch" or "Early Spearow gets the Caterpie".
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* Falkner and his father Walker in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', both of which are Flying-type Gym Leaders who use mainly avian Pokémon, are rather fond of using figures of speech involving birds ([[HoldYourHippogriffs adapted to]] Franchise/{{Pokemon}}]]) such as "don't count your Pidgeys before they hatch" or "Early Spearow gets the Caterpie".
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** Kazuichi Souda in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' often refers to being excited as "engines revving!" as if to refer to his talent as the Ultimate Mechanic.
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** Kazuichi Souda Soda in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' often refers to being excited as "engines revving!" as if to refer to his talent as the Ultimate Mechanic.
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* In ''Literature/TheLandOfGreenGinger'', Sinbad the Sailor ("Son of ''the'' Literature/{{Sinbad|TheSailor}}!") talks largely in nautical clichés, to the point that the reader (who first encounters him sailing a small boat on a calm river) may well doubt his authenticity.
-->"But if you're coming aboard ye'll have to Shake a Leg, ye Pesky Landlubbers!" he added. "There's a Squall coming up on the Port Bow!"\\
"Which ''is'' the Port Bow?" asked Abu Ali.\\
"Whichever you prefer," said Sinbad generously. "I find that Either answers Admirably. All Aboard that's Coming Aboard!"
-->"But if you're coming aboard ye'll have to Shake a Leg, ye Pesky Landlubbers!" he added. "There's a Squall coming up on the Port Bow!"\\
"Which ''is'' the Port Bow?" asked Abu Ali.\\
"Whichever you prefer," said Sinbad generously. "I find that Either answers Admirably. All Aboard that's Coming Aboard!"
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* Cilan in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' uses culinary lingo in other, unrelated contexts pretty much every episode he's in. While he ''is'' a chef, his main profession is Pokémon Connoisseur, which means he basically does this for a living.
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* ''Series/{{Ghosts}}'': [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Captain]] uses military terminology to describe everyday activities, even long after his death and return as a housebound [[FriendlyGhost ghost]].
-->'''The Captain:''' We work in shifts. Campaign of attrition. Guerilla war.\\
'''Pat:''' [[LampshadeHanging Why is it always about war with you?]]\\
''[The Captain incredulously gestures at [[JacobMarleyApparel his uniform]]]''
-->'''The Captain:''' We work in shifts. Campaign of attrition. Guerilla war.\\
'''Pat:''' [[LampshadeHanging Why is it always about war with you?]]\\
''[The Captain incredulously gestures at [[JacobMarleyApparel his uniform]]]''
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* In ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'', we're told that Commander Vimes studies geography as though it were a crime scene ("Would you recognise that glacier if you saw it again?") Mostly though, he talks to people as though he was conducting an investigation because he [[BusmansHoliday always is]].
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* In ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'', ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'', we're told that Commander Vimes studies geography as though it were a crime scene ("Would you recognise that glacier if you saw it again?") Mostly though, he talks to people as though he was conducting an investigation because he [[BusmansHoliday always is]].
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* In ''Forced Perspectives'' by Creator/TimPowers, the villain has a computer science background, as do some of his underlings, and they use computer networking metaphors to describe the psychic phenomena their plot revolves around. It's also used as a generational indicator: the members of the plot from the 1960s that he's attempting to revive used a telephone switchboard analogy to describe the same phenomena, while his Gen Z nieces use a metaphor about smartphone apps.
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* In ''Series/HankZipzer'', Hank's father Stan is a sports journalist and tends to express everything in terms of sports metaphors.
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** Kazuichi Souda in ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2'' often refers to being excited as "engines revving!" as if to refer to his talent as the Super Highschool Level Mechanic.
** Kaede Akamatsu in ''VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3'' often reflects on pieces of classic music to describe her mood or situations in which they could be fitting, as per her talent of Super Highschool Level Pianist.
** Kaede Akamatsu in ''VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3'' often reflects on pieces of classic music to describe her mood or situations in which they could be fitting, as per her talent of Super Highschool Level Pianist.
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** Kazuichi Souda in ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2'' ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' often refers to being excited as "engines revving!" as if to refer to his talent as the Super Highschool Level Ultimate Mechanic.
** Kaede Akamatsu in''VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3'' ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' often reflects on pieces of classic classical music to describe her mood or situations in which they could be fitting, as per her talent of Super Highschool Level the Ultimate Pianist.
** Kaede Akamatsu in
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* Used as a plot point in ''Film/TheTakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree'' remake: Garber notices Ryder isn't a regular hijacker due to his use of financial terminology (such as referring to the hostages as "commodities" and mockingly letting Garber keep some extraneous cents of the ransom money as a "broker's fee"). [[spoiler:Ryder is actually a former Wall Street tycoon and his goal isn't taking the ransom money itself but profiting from the market crash caused by the suspicions of terrorism behind the hijacking.]]
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* Used as a plot point in ''Film/TheTakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree'' remake: Garber notices hypothesizes Ryder isn't a regular hijacker due to his use of financial terminology (such as referring to the hostages as "commodities" and mockingly letting Garber keep some extraneous cents of the ransom money as a "broker's fee"). [[spoiler:Ryder is actually a former must have worked in Wall Street tycoon since he's constantly framing the hostage situation and his the money exchange in financial terms ("commodities", "futures contract", "spot trade", etc). [[spoiler:Not only is Garber right, but Ryder's goal isn't taking the ransom money itself but profiting from the market crash caused by the suspicions of terrorism behind the hijacking.]]
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* Used as a plot point in ''Film/TheTakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree'' remake: Garber notices Ryder isn't a regular hijacker due to his use of financial terminology (such as referring to the hostages as "assets"). [[spoiler:Turns out "commodities" and mockingly letting Garber keep some extraneous cents of the ransom money as a "broker's fee"). [[spoiler:Ryder is actually a former Wall Street tycoon and his goal isn't taking the ransom money itself but profiting from the market crash caused by the suspicions of terrorism behind the hijacking.]]
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* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' supporting character Fenway manages to work a baseball metaphor into practically every sentence he spoke.
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** When ProfessionalKiller Snoop is in the market for a nail gun, she confused about what she should buy until the salesman starts using firearms terms like "caliber" to describe a model. She perks up and exchanges lingo with the salesman before handing him a wad of bills. When Chris asks what she bought, she rattles off the nail gun's attributes as if it's some kind of badass machinegun.
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** When ProfessionalKiller Snoop is in the market for a nail gun, she she's confused about what she should buy until the salesman starts using firearms terms like "caliber" to describe a model. She perks up and exchanges lingo with the salesman before handing him a wad of bills. When Chris asks what she bought, she rattles off the nail gun's attributes as if it's some kind of badass machinegun.
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* ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'':
** Aoi Asahina tends to spout inspirational quotes from famous athletes that she has memorized for the sake of her training. It's revealed in a [[AffectionRating Free-Time Event]] that she joined six athletics clubs in her last school and swimming just so happened to stand out as the talent that got her scholarship into Hope's Peak.
** Aoi Asahina tends to spout inspirational quotes from famous athletes that she has memorized for the sake of her training. It's revealed in a [[AffectionRating Free-Time Event]] that she joined six athletics clubs in her last school and swimming just so happened to stand out as the talent that got her scholarship into Hope's Peak.
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** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'': Aoi Asahina tends to spout inspirational quotes from famous athletes that she has memorized for the sake of her training. It's revealed in a [[AffectionRating Free-Time Event]] that she joined six athletics clubs in her last school and swimming just so happened to stand out as the talent that got her scholarship into Hope's Peak.
** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'': Aoi Asahina tends to spout inspirational quotes from famous athletes that she has memorized for the sake of her training. It's revealed in a [[AffectionRating Free-Time Event]] that she joined six athletics clubs in her last school and swimming just so happened to stand out as the talent that got her scholarship into Hope's Peak.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Many examples, mostly from [[CountryMouse Applejack]]. As a farm pony, she frequently uses [[TalksLikeASimile farming-themed similes and metaphors]], many of which involve apples; in "The Cutie Map Part 2", she calls them "countryisms", and there appears to be a connection between her ability to make "countryisms" and her other farming talents, since she loses her ability to talk like that when her cutie mark's taken away.
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* Lsmpshaded and deconstructed in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'': Flint's father Tim is a fisherman, and he tries to use fishing metaphors when speaking to him, which Flint doesn't understand. This is [[PoorCommunicationKills both a cause of, and contributer to]], their emotionally distant relationship, until Flint finds a way to get around it.
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* Lsmpshaded Lampshaded and deconstructed in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'': Flint's father Tim is a fisherman, and he tries to use fishing metaphors when speaking to him, which Flint doesn't understand. This is [[PoorCommunicationKills both a cause of, and contributer to]], their emotionally distant relationship, until Flint finds a way to get around it.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Lsmpshaded and deconstructed in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'': Flint's father Tim is a fisherman, so and he uses tries to use fishing metaphors when speaking to him, which Flint doesn't understand.understand. This is [[PoorCommunicationKills both a cause of, and contributer to]], their emotionally distant relationship, until Flint finds a way to get around it.
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-->'''Pond:''' Men may argue for principles not entirely their own, for various reasons; as a joke in a rag debate, or covered by professional etiquette, like a barrister, or merely exaggerating something neglected and needing emphasis; long before we come to those who do it hypocritically or for hire. A man can argue for principles not his own. But a man cannot argue from principles not his own; the first principles he assumes, even for sophistry or advocacy, will probably be his own fundamental first principles. The very language he uses will betray him. That Bolshevist bookseller professed to be a bourgeois; but he talked like a Bolshevist about a bourgeois. He talked about exploitation and the class-war. So you tried to imagine yourself a Socialist; but you did not talk like a Socialist. You talked about the Social Contract, like old Rousseau.
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-->'''Pond:''' Men may argue for ''for'' principles not entirely their own, for various reasons; as a joke in a rag debate, or covered by professional etiquette, like a barrister, or merely exaggerating something neglected and needing emphasis; long before we come to those who do it hypocritically or for hire. A man can argue for ''for'' principles not his own. But a man cannot argue from ''from'' principles not his own; the first principles he assumes, even for sophistry or advocacy, will probably be his own fundamental first principles. The very language he uses will betray him. That Bolshevist bookseller professed to be a bourgeois; ''bourgeois''; but he talked like a Bolshevist about a bourgeois.''bourgeois''. He talked about exploitation and the class-war. So you tried to imagine yourself a Socialist; but you did not talk like a Socialist. You talked about the Social Contract, like old Rousseau.
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* {{Discussed}} in ''[[Creator/GKChesterton The Paradoxes of Mr Pond]]''.
-->'''Pond:''' Men may argue for principles not entirely their own, for various reasons; as a joke in a rag debate, or covered by professional etiquette, like a barrister, or merely exaggerating something neglected and needing emphasis; long before we come to those who do it hypocritically or for hire. A man can argue for principles not his own. But a man cannot argue from principles not his own; the first principles he assumes, even for sophistry or advocacy, will probably be his own fundamental first principles. The very language he uses will betray him. That Bolshevist bookseller professed to be a bourgeois; but he talked like a Bolshevist about a bourgeois. He talked about exploitation and the class-war. So you tried to imagine yourself a Socialist; but you did not talk like a Socialist. You talked about the Social Contract, like old Rousseau.
-->'''Pond:''' Men may argue for principles not entirely their own, for various reasons; as a joke in a rag debate, or covered by professional etiquette, like a barrister, or merely exaggerating something neglected and needing emphasis; long before we come to those who do it hypocritically or for hire. A man can argue for principles not his own. But a man cannot argue from principles not his own; the first principles he assumes, even for sophistry or advocacy, will probably be his own fundamental first principles. The very language he uses will betray him. That Bolshevist bookseller professed to be a bourgeois; but he talked like a Bolshevist about a bourgeois. He talked about exploitation and the class-war. So you tried to imagine yourself a Socialist; but you did not talk like a Socialist. You talked about the Social Contract, like old Rousseau.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' supporting character Fenway managed to work a baseball metaphor into practically every sentence he spoke.
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* Combined with TroubleEntendre: Near the start of ''Film/PulpFiction'', ProfessionalKillers Vincent and Jules are talking before a job, and Vincent casually mentions that their boss Marcellus asked Vincent to take care of Marcellus' wife while Marcellus was out of town. Jules reacts with shock and assumes that Marcellus meant to kill the wife, Vincent has to clarify.
* Used as a plot point in ''Film/TheTakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree'' remake: Garber notices Ryder isn't a regular hijacker due to his use of financial terminology (such as referring to the hostages as "assets"). [[spoiler:Turns out his goal isn't taking the ransom money itself but profiting from the market crash caused by the suspicions of terrorism behind the hijacking.]]
* Combined with TroubleEntendre: Near the start of ''Film/PulpFiction'', ProfessionalKillers Vincent and Jules are talking before a job, and Vincent casually mentions that their boss Marcellus asked Vincent to take care of Marcellus' wife while Marcellus was out of town. Jules reacts with shock and assumes that Marcellus meant to kill the wife, Vincent has to clarify.
* Used as a plot point in ''Film/TheTakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree'' remake: Garber notices Ryder isn't a regular hijacker due to his use of financial terminology (such as referring to the hostages as "assets"). [[spoiler:Turns out his goal isn't taking the ransom money itself but profiting from the market crash caused by the suspicions of terrorism behind the hijacking.]]
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* Combined with TroubleEntendre: Near the start of ''Film/PulpFiction'', ProfessionalKillers Vincent and Jules are talking before a job, and Vincent casually mentions that their boss Marcellus asked Vincent to take care of Marcellus' wife while Marcellus was out of town. Jules reacts with shock and assumes that Marcellus meant to kill the wife, Vincent has to clarify.
* Used as a plot point in ''Film/TheTakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree'' remake: Garber notices Ryder isn't a regular hijacker due to his use of financial terminology (such as referring to the hostages as "assets"). [[spoiler:Turns out his goal isn't taking the ransom money itself but profiting from the market crash caused by the suspicions of terrorism behind the hijacking.]]
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* Combined with TroubleEntendre: Near the start of ''Film/PulpFiction'', ProfessionalKillers Vincent and Jules are talking before a job, and Vincent casually mentions that their boss Marcellus asked Vincent to take care of Marcellus' wife while Marcellus was out of town. Jules reacts with shock and assumes that Marcellus meant to kill the wife, Vincent has to clarify.
* Used as a plot point in ''Film/TheTakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree'' remake: Garber notices Ryder isn't a regular hijacker due to his use of financial terminology (such as referring to the hostages as "assets"). [[spoiler:Turns out his goal isn't taking the ransom money itself but profiting from the market crash caused by the suspicions of terrorism behind the hijacking.]]
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* Combined with TroubleEntendre: Near the start of ''Film/PulpFiction'', ProfessionalKillers Vincent and Jules are talking before a job, and Vincent casually mentions that their boss Marcellus asked Vincent to take care of Marcellus' wife while Marcellus was out of town. Jules reacts with shock and assumes that Marcellus meant to kill the wife, Vincent has to clarify.
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* Doctor Hourani, in ''Series/HouseMD'', does this in a hospital and to a co-worker (namely, well, House). Instead of saying "I must be crazy" or "I must be hallucinating", he says "I must be having a complex partial seizure...".
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* Doctor Hourani, in ''Series/HouseMD'', ''Series/{{House}}'', does this in a hospital and to a co-worker (namely, well, House). Instead of saying "I must be crazy" or "I must be hallucinating", he says "I must be having a complex partial seizure...".
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* Aoi Asahina in ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' tends to spout inspirational quotes from famous athletes that she has memorized for the sake of her training. It's revealed in a [[AffectionRating Free-Time Event]] that she joined six athletics clubs in her last school and swimming just so happened to stand out as the talent that got her scholarship into Hope's Peak.
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** Aoi Asahinain ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' tends to spout inspirational quotes from famous athletes that she has memorized for the sake of her training. It's revealed in a [[AffectionRating Free-Time Event]] that she joined six athletics clubs in her last school and swimming just so happened to stand out as the talent that got her scholarship into Hope's Peak.
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* Prior to his {{Flanderization}} into creepiness incarnate, Coach Z from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' would overuse sports metaphors to the point that other characters started calling him out on it. From [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/xmas2001.html "The Best Decemberween Ever"]]:
-->'''Coach Z:''' Well, Homestar, I'll tell ya. Buying a Decemberween present for Strong Bad is like a great sports play. \\
-->'''Coach Z:''' Well, Homestar, I'll tell ya. Buying a Decemberween present for Strong Bad is like a great sports play. \\
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** Prior to his {{Flanderization}} into creepiness incarnate, Coach Zfrom ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' would overuse sports metaphors to the point that other characters started calling him out on it. From [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/xmas2001.html "The Best Decemberween Ever"]]:
-->'''Coach --->'''Coach Z:''' Well, Homestar, I'll tell ya. Buying a Decemberween present for Strong Bad is like a great sports play. \\
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--->'''Homestar:''' Hey, yeah, melonade! We haven't talked about that in a while! And maybe we can eat some marshmellows, too!
--->'''Bubs:''' And I like to dance!
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'''Bubs:''' And I like to dance!
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* The Mafia men of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' embody this trope. Fat Tony went so far as to say his wife was "whacked by natural causes". There was also a subversion in the same episode, as Tony asked Legs to "hot-sync" his [=PalmPilot=], and Legs thought he meant to shoot it.
-->'''Legs:''' I thought you meant *gcck* hot-sync it. You know how it is with us, everything means kill.
-->'''Legs:''' I thought you meant *gcck* hot-sync it. You know how it is with us, everything means kill.
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** The Mafia menof ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' embody this trope. Fat Tony went goes so far as to say his wife was "whacked by natural causes". There was is also a subversion in the same episode, as Tony asked asks Legs to "hot-sync" his [=PalmPilot=], and Legs thought thinks he meant to shoot it.
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* Very true in the military. It's not the bathroom, it's the "latrine" or "head." It's not the floor, it's the "deck."
* The old saying "swear like a sailor" is completely true. Some retired Navy personnel retain and use some very, ah, colorful and inventive profanities when injured, angry, or frustrated.
** It's not "left" and "right", it's "port" and "starboard". And they are not windows, they are portholes and skylights.
* The old saying "swear like a sailor" is completely true. Some retired Navy personnel retain and use some very, ah, colorful and inventive profanities when injured, angry, or frustrated.
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* The old saying "swear like a sailor" is completely true. Some retired Navy personnel retain and use some very, ah, colorful and inventive profanities when injured, angry, orfrustrated.
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* Anytime people from the same profession get together (even if they are retired), they're going to talk shop. Listening to such conversations can be an education in itself. Talking shop with someone not in your profession can also be quite illuminating, as you struggle to find ways to describe terms that, to you, are self describing in and of themselves.
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* Strippers will do this. They generally refer to the panties worn over a thong as "bottoms" or "shorts" and bras/corsets/whatever as "tops". Sentences like "yeah we take out bottoms off" (when said by a non-nude dancer) and "I need a new top" (when in the lingerie section) can cause lots of questions to be asked.
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* Strippers will do this. They generally refer to the panties worn over a thong as "bottoms" or "shorts" and bras/corsets/whatever as "tops". Sentences like "yeah we take out our bottoms off" (when said by a non-nude dancer) and "I need a new top" (when in the lingerie section) can cause lots of questions to be asked.
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* The infamous WeatherReportNarration quote from ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'' ("The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.") is sometimes interpreted this way. A reader [[WhatAreRecords who grew up in the age of digital television]] might well interpret that as the grey-hat hacker protagonist looking up at a beautiful clear blue sky and being unable to think of a description that didn't involve a screen of some sort, and conclude he'd been spending too much time in his HackerCave instead of getting out in the fresh air. [[{{Zeerust}} But the book was written in the 1980s]], and he's actually describing [[CyberPunkWithAChanceOfRain a gloomy, overcast sky]].
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* Aoi Asahina in ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' tends to spout inspirational quotes from famous athletes that she has memorized for the sake of her training. It's revealed in a [[AffectionRating Free-Time Event]] that she joined six athletics clubs in her last school and swimming just so happened to stand out as the talent that got her scholarship into Hope's Peak.
** Kazuichi Souda in ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2'' often refers to being excited as "engines revving!" as if to refer to his talent as the Super Highschool Level Mechanic.
** Kaede Akamatsu in ''VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3'' often reflects on pieces of classic music to describe her mood or situations in which they could be fitting, as per her talent of Super Highschool Level Pianist.
** Kazuichi Souda in ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2'' often refers to being excited as "engines revving!" as if to refer to his talent as the Super Highschool Level Mechanic.
** Kaede Akamatsu in ''VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3'' often reflects on pieces of classic music to describe her mood or situations in which they could be fitting, as per her talent of Super Highschool Level Pianist.
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* Practically every example in WrestlingDoesntPay uses this.
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* Practically every example in WrestlingDoesntPay uses this.
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** In the Viz translation of the manga, people tend to use pirate slang like "swabbie" fairly often.
