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* Nick and Terry, a duo of brothers from ''Anime/DaisukiBuBuChaCha'', speaks exclusively in rap.
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* Second language speakers often retain the patterns of their native languages in the new language. For instance, Russian lacks article (the, a, an) so a Russian speaking English will often drop them ("President of United States negotiated treaty with Russia today" etc).

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* Second language speakers often retain the patterns of their native languages in the new language. For instance, Russian lacks article articles (the, a, an) so a Russian speaking English will often drop them ("President of United States negotiated treaty with Russia today" etc).
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* WebVideo/JakeAndAmir: Amir Blumenfeld. He speaks simultaneously in strange riddles, half thoughts, similes and turns of phrases that don't make sense, and insults. Sometimes he tries to ape things Jake has said to him to sound smarter or more normal, but always manages to screw them up or deliver them at the wrong time.
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* ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'': In the dragon POV scenes, Dragonese is shown in ''<bracketed italics>'' with Object-Subject-Verb order (i.e. Yoda-speech) to illustrate its alienness to human speech.
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* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': In the episode "Dry Spell", M.A.D. agent Kirk Boulder was assisted by a [[CreepyTwins pair of identical trolls]], one wearing orange and the other wearing blue. Whenever the one in orange said something, the one in blue would repeat it... changing the order of the words.

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* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': In the episode "Dry Spell", M.A.D. agent Kirk Boulder was assisted by a [[CreepyTwins pair of identical trolls]], one wearing orange and the other one wearing blue. Whenever the one in orange said something, the one in blue would repeat it... changing the order of the words.
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* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': In the episode "Dry Spell", M.A.D. agent Boulder was assisted by a [[CreepyTwins pair of identical trolls]], one wearing orange and the other wearing blue. Whenever the one in orange said something, the one in blue would repeat it... changing the order of the words.

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* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': In the episode "Dry Spell", M.A.D. agent Kirk Boulder was assisted by a [[CreepyTwins pair of identical trolls]], one wearing orange and the other wearing blue. Whenever the one in orange said something, the one in blue would repeat it... changing the order of the words.
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* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': In the episode "Dry Spell", M.A.D. agent Boulder was assisted by a [[CreepyTwins pair of identical trolls]], one wearing orange and the other wearing blue. Whenever the one in orange said something, the one in blue would repeat it... changing the order of the words.
-->'''Troll in orange:''' We are ready!\\
'''Troll in blue:''' Ready we are!
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** Another possibility is that [[ElectiveBrokenLanguage Yoda talks like this on purpose]], both [[TricksterMentor to mess around with people]] and to get them to listen attentively to what he says. This theory was confirmed in the semi-canonical ''Literature/FateOfTheJedi'' novel ''Backlash''.

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** Another possibility is that [[ElectiveBrokenLanguage Yoda talks like this on purpose]], both [[TricksterMentor to mess around with people]] and to get them to listen attentively to what he says. This theory was confirmed for the [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]] continuity in the semi-canonical ''Literature/FateOfTheJedi'' novel ''Backlash''.

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