History Main / StrangeSyntaxSpeaker

** High Priest Dios, from ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'', never uses the past tense under any circumstance, leading to sentences like this one:

** However, when humans get a POV, they’re shown to speak in a different but equally strange way.

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone}}'' has a tendency to do this due to the oddities in how Skullbanians talk compared to humans. The most prominent example of his unusual speech is how he tends to say "X's Y" as "Y of X" (for example, he calls Bill's mom "Mom of Bill").

** There's also an entity known as FORMER, a bizarre tardigrade-like ''thing'' that in the base game [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere repeatedly comes out of nowhere to fight Jesse]], which that The Board claims used to be part of them but was ousted for unknown reasons. In the ''Foundation'' DLC, [[SuddenlySpeaking it tries to more peacefully contact Jesse]] and has a similar radio-like "voice", [[BlackSpeech but the translations are even more garbled]], consisting of [[SelfDemonstratingArticle < Random @#$#@$ Nouns @#$@# Symbols @#$ Disconnect @#$* Mess >]] that only provides a vague suggestion of what it's trying to say.

* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', the [[WitchSpecies Night Hag]] Ravel Puzzlewell has a dialect that can only be summarized as "odd". Like Yoda, she tends to use a Object-Subject-Verb speech order, is a ThirdPersonPerson, and she's prone to partially or wholly repeating sentences by substituting words with their textual homophones. She may also go off on something of a tangent or switch topics entirely based on a homophone that particularly catches her attention. [[ElectiveBrokenLanguage Except when she chooses to speak in the proper speech order and/or use first person perspective dialogue, which she randomly does]]. It's left ambiguous if she always talked like this, or if maybe it's a side-effect of going more than little nuts over centuries in an extraplanar prison.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'', the wizard Lazar speaks similarly to Yoda, reversing nouns and verbs.

* The Sheriff of Rottingham from ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' starts transposing his words whenever he starts to get [[{{Angrish}} angry]]. Usually he just transposes a word or two ("Over that boy hand!"). But when Robin and Marian kiss during the banquet he completely loses it:

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': [[OldMaster Master Yoda]] usually speaks with a [[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002173.html Object-Subject-Verb word order]]. A defining characteristic, his strange syntax is, and often parodied.

'''V:''' I am sure they will say so.

* In heraldry, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazon blazons]] use Old French grammar, which can be jarring for a novice heraldry enthusiast.

* ''Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth'' by Creator/TomStoppard features a language consisting of the same words as English, but with different meanings (so that, for instance, "useless" means ''afternoon'', and "afternoon" means something dreadfully insulting). Stoppard got the idea from an essay by Creator/LudwigWittgenstein, who pointed out that in such a circumstance, two people might interact without ever realising that they're speaking two different languages, and illustrated with a hypothetical conversation that gets reprised in the first act of the play.

* Similarly, Fawful of the [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi Mario & Luigi]] series has this practically programmed into the speech center of his brain...

* The Orz from ''VideoGame/StarControlII'' have [[StarfishAlien thought processes so alien]] that the best translators cannot fully process their language. Translations end up using a combination of best guesses and mixed metaphors for the unknown words.

** In the prequels, [[TheScrappy Jar Jar Binks]], and to a lesser extent the other Gungans, speaks a pidgin Galactic Basic that involves [[HulkSpeak dropping articles such as "the" and using "me" in place of "I"]] and adding random syllables to otherwise standard words ("meesa" instead of "I am", "looky" to mean "look", etc.).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Pickles", a supposed error in [=SpongeBob=]'s Krabby Patty order causes him to get mixed up with ''everything'', including his sentences.

* The aliens in Creator/TheodoreSturgeon's novella "The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff" use this in written form. It's implied that the words in brackets represent alternative translations of alien words that have more than one common meaning, or nonsense words for concepts inherently untranslatable. The alternatives are often hilariously incompatible, like [escape|die].

* ''TabletopGame/WorldTreeRPG'': Sleeth always speak in the present tense, even when discussing events firmly in the past or future, and use "the" instead of "a".

-->"We are (not simply [more than {we are the mechanism of life eternal} monsters] monsters) what we must be."
-->"I have done (created [brought the {saved us all} next age] wonders) the impossible."