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* Faxanadu's "You do not have enough golds"
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* ''[[DarkForcesSaga Jedi Outcast]]'' has the Chiss bartender on Nar Shadda talk like this, leading Kyle to comment on how you should "[[NeverTrustATrope Never trust a bartender with bad grammar]]".

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* ''[[DarkForcesSaga Jedi Outcast]]'' has the Chiss bartender on Nar Shadda talk like this, leading Kyle to comment on how you should "[[NeverTrustATrope Never trust a bartender with bad grammar]]".grammar]]."
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* In older episodes of ''TheSimpsons'', Homer usually addresses the Flanders family as the Flandereses

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* In older episodes of ''TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer usually addresses the Flanders family as the Flandereses
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* In older episodes of ''{{TheSimpsons}}'', Homer usually addresses the Flanders family as the Flandereses

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* In older episodes of ''{{TheSimpsons}}'', ''TheSimpsons'', Homer usually addresses the Flanders family as the Flandereses
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* In older episodes of ''{{TheSimpsons}}'', Homer usually addresses the Flanders family as the Flandereses
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* According to [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]], the plural of "pegasus" is "pegaseseseses".
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* ''FanFic/TheSpiderses''.
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* Momoko from ''{{Saki}}'' is subtitled as adding random plurals to her words. Though in this case it's not so much a habit of unnecessary pluralysis as it a VerbalTic where she ends words with "-su."

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* Momoko from ''{{Saki}}'' ''Manga/{{Saki}}'' is subtitled as adding random plurals to her words. Though in this case it's not so much a habit of unnecessary pluralysis as it a VerbalTic where she ends words with "-su."
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* Some fanworks have [[TouhouProject Marisa Kirisame's]] "-ze" verbal tick as a sort of "-s" sound at the end, so "Reimu, ze" becomes "Reimus", and so on.
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** Trulies.

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* [[TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya Tsuruya]] tends to do this in fanworks, though her VerbalTic is a bit more complex.
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See, now here\'s a place where it\'s APPROPRIATE to include the pluralses.


* The river crossing pilot in ''FinalFantasyX'' does this. You rides the shoopuff?

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* The river crossing pilot Hypello in ''FinalFantasyX'' does do this. You rides the shoopuff?

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* [[LordOfTheRings Gollum and Smeagols]] does this all the times, yes, filthy hobbitses, yes they doessssss...

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* [[LordOfTheRings ''LordOfTheRings'' Gollum and Smeagols]] Smeagols does this all the times, yes, filthy hobbitses, yes they doessssss...
* In ''Me Talk Pretty One Day'', David Sedaris chronicles his experiences learning French as an adult, which includes some of this.
-->Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. "Is thems the thoughts of cows?" I'd ask the butcher, pointing to the calves' brains displayed in the front window. "I want me some lamb chop with handles on 'em."
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** Teh Internetz, [[PrivateEye shurely?]]
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* The titular character from [[{{Selkie}} has this, though given her physiology, its not surprising.]]

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* The titular character from [[{{Selkie}} {{Selkie}} has this, though given her physiology, its not surprising.]]
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* Famous insurance-selling meerkat Aleksandr Orlov's catch phrase is "Simples."

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* Famous insurance-selling meerkat [[CompareTheMeerkat meerkat-comparing meerkat]] Aleksandr Orlov's catch phrase is "Simples."
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** In the "Flowers for Wendy" horror-parody sketch, the narrator goes into this toward the end for [[RuleOfFunny no real reason]]: "A tale of walking home, and pavements, and forgettings of birthdays, and rememberings, and wantings to buy flowerings, and discoverings of a flower-stallings just at the right momentings."

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Sometimes a characters will display their lacks of eloquences (or lack of familiarity with the English languages) by randomly pluralising words that frankly don't needs pluralising (including wordses that are alreadys pluralses). This tends to go with improper verb conjugation too, sometimes completely nonsensically. eg, instead of "I am a troper", except to see "I are a tropers" or "I ams a tropers".

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Sometimes a characters will display their lacks of eloquences (or lack of familiarity with the English languages) by randomly pluralising words that frankly don't needs pluralising (including wordses that are alreadys pluralses). This tends to go with improper verb conjugation too, sometimes completely nonsensically. eg, instead of "I am a troper", except expect to see "I are a tropers" or "I ams a tropers".



* Sal in ''{{Futurama}}'' does this to emphasise his lower-classness.
* In ''{{Metalocalypse}}'', Skwisgaar Skwigelf and Toki Wartooth do this alls the times to reminds yous that [[FunnyForeigner they're from Europes]].
* One time on ''ShaNaNa'', Chico was being given the {{Pygmalion}} treatment so he could ask out a higher class broad; for him the equivalent of "The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly in the Plain" was to say, "Here you go," instead of "Here youse go" when passing the potatoes.

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* Sal in ''{{Futurama}}'' does this to emphasise his lower-classness.
* In ''{{Metalocalypse}}'', Skwisgaar Skwigelf and Toki Wartooth do this alls the times to reminds yous that [[FunnyForeigner they're from Europes]].
* One time on ''ShaNaNa'', Chico was being given the {{Pygmalion}} treatment so he could ask out a higher class broad; for him the equivalent of "The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly in the Plain" was to say, "Here you go," instead of "Here youse go" when passing the potatoes.
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* [[LordOfTheRings Gollum and Smeagols]] does this all the times, yes, filthy hobbitses, yes they doessssss...

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* Momoko from ''{{Saki}}'' is subtitled as adding random plurals to her words. Though in
this all the times, yes, filthy hobbitses, yes they doessssss...case it's not so much a habit of unnecessary pluralysis as it a VerbalTic where she ends words with "-su."

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* The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrGRBso3_Lc Shoe Shop]]" sketch in ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' has: "[[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord I dislike the word 'brothel', Mr. Jowett.]] I prefer the word 'brothels'. Yes, this is a brothels."
* The river crossing pilot in ''FinalFantasyX'' does this. You rides the shoopuff?
* In the subtitles, all the Gamorreans [pig people] in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' use this trope in their speech.
* The BigBad in the first ''{{Thief}}'' game, "The Trickster", talked this way. Something of an aversion, as he spoke refined English in another guise. The Pagans from ''Deafly Shadows'' (who worship the Trickster, among other things) are a straight example.
* Two words: The Internets.
* ''[[DarkForcesSaga Jedi Outcast]]'' has the Chiss bartender on Nar Shadda talk like this, leading Kyle to comment on how you should "[[NeverTrustATrope Never trust a bartender with bad grammar]]".
* Momoko from ''{{Saki}}'' is subtitled as adding random plurals to her words. Though in this case it's not so much a habit of unnecessary pluralysis as it a VerbalTic where she ends words with "-su."

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* The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrGRBso3_Lc Shoe Shop]]" sketch in ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' has: "[[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord I dislike the word 'brothel', Mr. Jowett.]] I prefer the word 'brothels'. Yes, this is a brothels."
* The river crossing pilot in ''FinalFantasyX'' does this. You rides the shoopuff?
* In the subtitles, all the Gamorreans [pig people] in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' use this trope in their speech.
* The BigBad in the first ''{{Thief}}'' game, "The Trickster", talked this way. Something of an aversion, as he spoke refined English in another guise. The Pagans from ''Deafly Shadows'' (who worship the Trickster, among other things) are a straight example.
* Two words: The Internets.
* ''[[DarkForcesSaga Jedi Outcast]]'' has the Chiss bartender on Nar Shadda talk like this, leading Kyle to comment on how you should "[[NeverTrustATrope Never trust a bartender with bad grammar]]".
* Momoko from ''{{Saki}}'' is subtitled as adding random plurals to her words. Though in this case it's not so much a habit of unnecessary pluralysis as it a VerbalTic where she ends words with "-su."

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* In ''LoveActually'' there's a scene where ColinFirth has learned clumsy Portuguese so he can tell his housekeeper he's in love with her and ask her to marry him. She says, "Thank you, that will be nice," and then when he remarks that she learned English too, she says, "Just in cases."

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* [[LordOfTheRings Gollum and Smeagols]] does this all the times, yes, filthy hobbitses, yes they doessssss...

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* One time on ''ShaNaNa'', Chico was being given the {{Pygmalion}} treatment so he could ask out a higher class broad; for him the equivalent of "The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly in the Plain" was to say, "Here you go," instead of "Here youse go" when passing the potatoes.
* The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrGRBso3_Lc Shoe Shop]]" sketch in ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' has: "[[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord I dislike the word 'brothel', Mr. Jowett.]] I prefer the word 'brothels'. Yes, this is a brothels."
* In one of J.D.'s daydream sequences on ''{{Scrubs}}'', he was a Mexican migrant worker talking about "apples pie" and "apples juice."

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* The river crossing pilot in ''FinalFantasyX'' does this. You rides the shoopuff?
* In the subtitles, all the Gamorreans [pig people] in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' use this trope in their speech.
* The BigBad in the first ''{{Thief}}'' game, "The Trickster", talked this way. Something of an aversion, as he spoke refined English in another guise. The Pagans from ''Deafly Shadows'' (who worship the Trickster, among other things) are a straight example.
* ''[[DarkForcesSaga Jedi Outcast]]'' has the Chiss bartender on Nar Shadda talk like this, leading Kyle to comment on how you should "[[NeverTrustATrope Never trust a bartender with bad grammar]]".

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* Sal in ''{{Futurama}}'' does this to emphasise his lower-classness.
* In ''{{Metalocalypse}}'', Skwisgaar Skwigelf and Toki Wartooth do this alls the times to reminds yous that [[FunnyForeigner they're from Europes]].

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* Two words: The Internets.
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* The infamous "[[TranslationTrainWreck Backstroke of the West]]" bootleg of ''StarWars: RevengeOfTheSith'' gives us the subtitle "Send these troopseses only." It also gives us such words as "dreamses," "needses," "beened" and "livinging."

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* The infamous "[[TranslationTrainWreck Backstroke of the West]]" bootleg of ''StarWars: RevengeOfTheSith'' gives us the subtitle "Send these troopseses only." It also gives us such words as "dreamses," "needses," "beened" "beened," "livinging," and "livinging.the especially wonderful "politicseses."
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* The infamous "[[TranslationTrainWreck Backstroke of the West]]" bootleg of ''StarWars: RevengeOfTheSith'' gives us the subtitle "Send these troopseses only!"

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* The infamous "[[TranslationTrainWreck Backstroke of the West]]" bootleg of ''StarWars: RevengeOfTheSith'' gives us the subtitle "Send these troopseses only!"only." It also gives us such words as "dreamses," "needses," "beened" and "livinging."
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* The infamous "[[TranslationTrainWreck Backstroke of the West]]" bootleg of ''StarWars: AttackOfTheClones'' gives us the subtitle "Send these troopseses only!"

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* The infamous "[[TranslationTrainWreck Backstroke of the West]]" bootleg of ''StarWars: AttackOfTheClones'' RevengeOfTheSith'' gives us the subtitle "Send these troopseses only!"
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* The infamous "[[TranslationTrainWreck Backstroke of the West]]" bootleg of ''StarWars: AttackOfTheClones'' gives us the subtitle "Send these troopseses only!"
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* Momoko from ''{{Saki}}'' is subtitled as adding random plurals to her words. Though in this case it's not so much a habit of unnecessary pluralysis as it a VerbalTic where she ends words with "-su."
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* ''[[DarkForcesSaga Jedi Outcast]]'' has the Chiss bartender on Nar Shadda talk like this, leading Kyle to comment on how you should "[[NeverTrustATrope Never trust a bartender with bad grammar]]".
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* The BigBad in the first ''{{Thief}}'' game, "The Trickster", talked this way. Something of an aversion, as he spoke refined English in another guise.

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* The BigBad in the first ''{{Thief}}'' game, "The Trickster", talked this way. Something of an aversion, as he spoke refined English in another guise. The Pagans from ''Deafly Shadows'' (who worship the Trickster, among other things) are a straight example.
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A [[SubTrope Subs Tropes]] of [[YouNoTakeCandle You No Take Candles]]. Compares [[ConfusingMultipleNegatives Confusings Multiples Negativeses]].

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A [[SubTrope Subs Tropes]] of [[YouNoTakeCandle You No Take Candles]]. Compares [[ConfusingMultipleNegatives Confusings Multiples Negativeses]]. Not to be confused with loanwordses that have several possible pluralses such that one does not know which one is right (Latin-ish words, etc.).
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* [[{{Metalocalypse}} Skwisgaar Skwigelf and Toki Wartooth]] do this alls the times to reminds yous that [[FunnyForeigner they're from Europes]].
* One time on ''ShaNaNa'' Chico was being given the {{Pygmalion}} treatment so he could ask out a higher class broad; for him the equivalent of "The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly in the Plain" was saying "Here you go" instead of "Here youse go" when passing the potatoes.
* Famous insurance-selling meerkat Aleksandr Orlov's catchphrase is "Simples."

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* [[{{Metalocalypse}} In ''{{Metalocalypse}}'', Skwisgaar Skwigelf and Toki Wartooth]] Wartooth do this alls the times to reminds yous that [[FunnyForeigner they're from Europes]].
* One time on ''ShaNaNa'' ''ShaNaNa'', Chico was being given the {{Pygmalion}} treatment so he could ask out a higher class broad; for him the equivalent of "The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly in the Plain" was saying to say, "Here you go" go," instead of "Here youse go" when passing the potatoes.
* Famous insurance-selling meerkat Aleksandr Orlov's catchphrase catch phrase is "Simples."



* The Gronkses in Strontium Dog all do this

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* The Gronkses in Strontium Dog ''StrontiumDog'' all do thisthis.



* In the subtitles, all the Gamorreans (pig people) in KnightsOfTheOldRepublic use this trope in their speech.
* The BigBad in the first {{Thief}} game, "The Trickster," talked this way. Something of an aversion, as he spoke refined English in another guise.

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* In the subtitles, all the Gamorreans (pig people) [pig people] in KnightsOfTheOldRepublic ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' use this trope in their speech.
* The BigBad in the first {{Thief}} ''{{Thief}}'' game, "The Trickster," Trickster", talked this way. Something of an aversion, as he spoke refined English in another guise.



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