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14th May '13 7:05:17 AM Morgenthaler

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7th May '13 4:25:57 PM AnotherDuck

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All of the Real Life examples fail the definition of the trope, in that they're perfectly normal in their own language. Comments aboure the oppressiveness of certain leaders is also not something for TV Tropes.

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27th Apr '13 1:44:58 PM VanHohenheimOfXerxes

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27th Apr '13 1:42:09 PM VanHohenheimOfXerxes

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27th Apr '13 1:41:48 PM VanHohenheimOfXerxes

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27th Apr '13 1:39:57 PM VanHohenheimOfXerxes

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27th Apr '13 1:39:05 PM VanHohenheimOfXerxes

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* Although the name of the Jewish God is written as YHWH (which looks unpronounceable) that's due to it being a literal transliteration of the name from Hebrew, where it is written without vowels. This doesn't mean there are no vowels, just that they aren't shown (which is done often in Hebrew; vowel marks weren't added to the written language until the 9th century). However, God may have much longer mystical names (depending on the religious theories and interpretations) of up to seventy-two letters which have been lost at this point; these might fall into this trope.
** Some scholars think that pronunciation of YHWH would actually be all breath sounds, leading to "God is breath/life." Which brings up the question "Can you pronounce breathing?"
** Also, it is actually forbidden to Orthodox Jews to pronounce God's real name. When reading the Torah (which is done aloud), one just replaces it with "adonai" meaning Lord.
** This is the source of the word Yehovah, reading YHWH with the vowels from adonai.
** Even the word YHWH is actually a shortened version of the "real" name of God, which was allegedly dozens of syllables long and originally passed down in secret by the Levi clan and only pronounced aloud in the innermost chamber of His temple during the most sacred rituals. As far as anyone can tell, it has been lost to history.

27th Apr '13 1:37:02 PM VanHohenheimOfXerxes

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* Creator/RogerZelazny's fantasy novel ''Literature/TheChangingLand'' features a demon named Melbrinionsadsazzersteldregandishfeltselior. The long name is necessary for the invocation ritual, and if the sorcerer attempting it were to get as much as one syllable wrong, the demon would kill him. Understandably, wizards are reluctant to attempt it. Subverted inasmuch as one of the antagonists is a wizard named Baran, whose native tongue is a horribly complicated agglutinative language, so he has no problem pronouncing the name and using the demon for errands.
* On the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', demons are given names that look like they were selected by headbutting a keyboard; when the demon WxrtHltl-jwlpklz introduces himself in Wyrd Sisters, Nanny Ogg quips, "Where were you when the vowels were handed out, behind the door?" Her co-witch, Granny Weatherwax, pronounces it without raising a sweat. While there are hideous beasts from the dungeon dimensions a la Cthulhu, more description is given to their forms than names (they're usually described as what might be the offspring of an octopus and a bicycle).

27th Apr '13 1:35:10 PM VanHohenheimOfXerxes

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27th Apr '13 1:31:59 PM VanHohenheimOfXerxes

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