History Main / GratuitousEnglish

* This is implied rather heavily to be part of the reason for the Japanese ComicBook/SuperYoungTeam's awkward-sounding names in Franchise/TheDCU, the other being simply awkward translation. Big Atomic Lantern Boy's name is almost certainly entirely in English, though.

* A French translation of a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' comic strip once had Linus Van Pelt, after speaking in perfect French, refer to his blanket-hating, caffeine-addicted grandmother as "Granny". Pretty jolting, especially since the French have pet names of their own for their grandmothers, the most common being "Mamie".

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'': The original French dub has the Crumpets' EvilAunt Harried randomly speaking English sentences and even occasionally the word "[[ForeignCussWord shit]]". In one episode, she instructs Caprice to speak English so she can attract a celebrity. The English dub made Harried randomly speak [[GratuitousItalian Italian]], as well as teaching Caprice the Italian chic in that episode.

* [[GratuitousEnglish/LiveActionFilms Films – Live-Action]]

* The narrator from ''WebVideo/DigimonResumido'', just because he has an epic voice. And Creator/JKSimmons in the second episode.
* ''WebVideo/FranceFive'', despite being a French series, shares the love of Gratuitous English of the {{Sentai}} shows they parody.

* WebVideo/KizunaAi often peppers her speech with English phrases, many of which are spoken with proper grammar (although when it comes to reading and writing English, she has some difficulties).

* No less a philosopher than Creator/FriedrichNietzsche was known to drop English (as well as [[GratuitousFrench French]], [[AltumVidetur Latin]], and [[GratuitousGreek Greek]]) into his otherwise-German works. He usually used this when quoting from an English work, but sometimes used English words alone to make a point, to [[MindScrew screw with the reader]], or just because he felt like it. Since he spoke English, he knew exactly what was being said (so no funniness from misplaced words) but it makes reading Nietzsche interesting for English-speakers: if you're reading it in English translation, the footnotes that say "this bit was originally in English" are often kind of amusing, and if you can speak German and are reading it in the original, it's rather shocking to see the English in a sea of German.

However, most of the time writers don't actually speak English (or least not fluently), resulting in rather silly or nonsensical phrases. If grammatically incorrect, it can end up YouNoTakeCandle. [[NoPronunciationGuide Ifu puronanshieishon izu za puroburemu]], shii JapaneseRanguage ando rereitedo toroupuzu.[[labelnote:Translation]]

* In the German version of the ''WessternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoons (the newer ones), an English word is inserted ''just'' for the rhyme: "Hallo ihr daheim - jetzt ist Popeye-''Time''!"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' are translated to Spanish for latin america, but the musical interludes are not. Translating dialogues is one thing, but translation the lyrics of a song in a way that they remain true to the original lyrics and also fit well in the song is not an easy task (even in the music industry translated lyrics in CoverVersion songs are rare). As a result, the episodes make an odd jump from characters speaking in Spanish, to the same characters singing in English and with different voices (as the voice actors are not the same).

However, most of time writers don't actually speak English (or least not fluently), resulting in rather silly or nonsensical phrases. If grammatically incorrect, it can end up YouNoTakeCandle. [[NoPronunciationGuide Ifu puronanshieishon izu za puroburemu]], shii JapaneseRanguage ando rereitedo toroupuzu.[[labelnote:Translation]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In the French dub[[note]]The series' original language is French[[/note]], the characters frequently use English words like "what" and "stop" instead of the French words.

* [[http://garfield.com/us-acres/2012-09-06 This]] ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' strip has Orson receiving a phone call from UsefulNotes/{{China}} after sneezing. Guess what's wrong with the message.

There are a number of reasons for this. [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Foreign languages in general]] help spice up a work, and with fact that English is something of a [[CommonTongue general trade language]], many viewers will have some idea of what's going on, regardless of their native language.

There are number of reasons for this. [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Foreign languages in general]] helps spice up a work, and with fact that English is something of a [[CommonTongue general trade language]], many viewers will have some idea of what's going on, regardless of their native language.

There are number of reasons for this. [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Foreign languages in general]] help spice up work, and with fact that English is something of [[CommonTongue general trade language]], many viewers will have some idea what going on, regardless of their native language.

* In the Spanish dub of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' short "I'm Mad", Wakko's line "Gotta use the potty, better stop the car!" is translated into "Tengo que ir al baño para la potty", with the translators leaving the word "potty" in English rather than translating it as "orinal" [[note]]though this may be because it's also used as the Spanish word for "urinal".[[/note]]

* The original book inspired the film Film/EdgeOfTomorrow is called "Literature/AllYouNeedIsKill" in English even in Japan.

* The ''Fanfic/TouhouM1GrandPrix'' has "[=JudgEE=]" for ever time judging comes up. There are also a few skits with not-quite-english, one of the worst (for [[RuleOfFunny comic effect]]) was in the 3rd contest when Tewi tried to do an English routine... while only knowing a few words. Made funnier as even the other comedian realizes it's wrong.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WpKTICgwR8 FUCK YOU. I GON KICK YOU ASS!]]

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