History Main / StrangeSyntaxSpeaker

->''"I realize this moment may not be the mosssst...convenient for a heart. To heart. But, I had to wait until your...friends, mhah, were otherwise, occupiiiiied."''

->'''Wreck-Gar:''' Yes, friends, act now! Destroy [[PlanetEater Unicron]]! Kill the Grand Poobah! Eliminate even the toughest stains!

** Also from the movie, Wheelie speaks exclusively in rhyme.

* ''TheFairlyOddparents'' has an alien race called the Gigglepies, who speak in rhyme. It might be just an act, however.
** One video game based on the series, "Breakin' Da Rules," has a bit part played by a Yugopotamian known only as the "Irritating Rhyming Guard". Guess why.

* In ''{{Star Trek III The Search for Spock}}'', the big-eared alien [=McCoy=] meets in a bar speaks in odd syntax.
--->"I name not important. You seek I." "Mutara restricted. Take permits many. Money, more."

** One story in ''TheSimpsons'' "Treehouse of Horror V" features Homer traveling through time and [[ButterflyOfDoom changing history]] as a result. One such future is a {{Dystopia}} ruled by Ned Flanders, who rules with a [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] form of [=NewSpeak=].
--->"Heidely-ho, slaverinos!"

ZeroWingrish is comparing.

*** All explained in the StarTrekExpandedUniverse. The story "Friends with the Sparrows" answers these questions. For the "building starships" answer: Tamarian mathematical and musical notations are very closely linked. Tamarian engineers and programmers literally sing equations, transferring instructions through music. Even in ordinary speech, numerical information can be conveyed through the pitch of a Tamarian’s vocal harmonics, though it can be hard for Human ears to discern the nuances.
--> "This answers the infamous question one linguist posed to illustrate the apparent limitations of Tamarian as a practical language: “Mirab-his-sails-unfurled factor what, sir?”

(Left lost by byzantine demonstrative description? [[StrangeSyntaxSpeakerDiscussion Read regular description directly.]])

*** All explained in the StarTrekExpandedUniverse. The story "Friends with the Sparrows" answers these questions. For the "building starships" answer: Tamarian mathematical and musical notations are very closely linked. Tamarian engineers and programmers literally sing equations, transferring instructions through music. Even in ordinary speech, numerical information can be conveyed through the pitch of a Tamarian’s vocal harmonics, though it can be hard for Human ears to discern the nuances.
--> "This answers the infamous question one linguist posed to illustrate the apparent limitations of Tamarian as a practical language: “Mirab-his-sails-unfurled factor what, sir?”

->--The G-Man, ''{{Half-Life}} 2: Episode Two''

->--The G-Man, ''HalfLife 2: Episode Two''

* A minor alien species in ''MassEffect'', 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.
** On a related note, the Hanar's habit of referring to themselves as "this one" might count.
** Though really combination of TerseTalker and MotorMouth, Mordin Solis verges into StrangeSyntaxSpeaker due to combination of elided speech and TechnoBabble.

*** What's interesting, is that this almost exactly matches the way JosephStalin spoke Russian. While he was Georgian, heis accent was almost non-existent and showed only in those strange emphases, wrong stresses and pauses where there should be none, combined with the strangely soft enunciation -- which, reportedly, made his speech all the more terrifying (and that probably was the reason he spoke that way).

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* ''TheTwilightZone'' (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.