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** Bob [[FreakyFridayFlip switches bodies]] with a Frenchman and is surprised when he doesn't start hearing French as English. Alice then explains that in RealLife, French people don't hear French as English.
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** Bob [[FreakyFridayFlip switches bodies]] with a Frenchman Alice and is surprised when he doesn't start hearing French as English. Alice then explains that in RealLife, French people don't hear French as English.
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* '''Discussed''': Alice, who is from France, arrives in America. When everybody understands her, Bob explains that in RealLife, if it sounds like you're speaking English, then you are speaking English.
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* '''Discussed''': '''Discussed''':
** Alice, who is from France, arrives in America. When everybody understands her, Bob explains that in RealLife, if it sounds like you're speaking English, then you are speaking English.
** Bob [[FreakyFridayFlip switches bodies]] with a Frenchman and is surprised when he doesn't start hearing French as English. Alice then explains that in RealLife, French people don't hear French as English.
** Alice, who is from France, arrives in America. When everybody understands her, Bob explains that in RealLife, if it sounds like you're speaking English, then you are speaking English.
** Bob [[FreakyFridayFlip switches bodies]] with a Frenchman and is surprised when he doesn't start hearing French as English. Alice then explains that in RealLife, French people don't hear French as English.
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* '''Lampshaded''': "If the audience hears me speaking English, why does everyone in America hear me speaking French when I try to talk to them?"
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* '''Lampshaded''': "If the audience hears me speaking English, why does everyone in America hear me speaking French when I try to talk to them?""Save your breath, Alice. You know Americans can't [[MediumAwareness hear]] us."
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My brother's watching a French movie right now and everyone's speaking French.
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* '''Conversed''': "Why do characters in French movies always speak English with a French accent?"
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* '''Conversed''': "Why do characters in French movies always does Alice hear herself speak English with a while the American characters hear her speak French? Do they actually expect me to believe that French accent?"people hear French as English?"
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France isn't the only French-speaking country.
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* '''Defied''': Alice goes to a wizard and asks him for the ability to talk to people who aren't from France.
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* '''Defied''': Alice goes to a wizard and asks him for the ability to talk to people who aren't from France.don't understand French.
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* '''Defied''': "Stop speaking English! We are in France, we all know French, lets speak French, for heavens sake!"
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* '''Defied''': "Stop speaking English! We are in France, we all know French, lets speak French, Alice goes to a wizard and asks him for heavens sake!"the ability to talk to people who aren't from France.
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* '''Deconstructed''': English is the international language. All other languages are dead, and with them many cultures.
* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are used like Latin is in RealLife.
* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are used like Latin is in RealLife.
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* '''Deconstructed''': English Alice, who is from France, travels to America. Because the international language. All other languages are dead, Americans can only hear her speaking French, which is just gibberish to them, she is MistakenForInsane and with them many cultures.
locked up in a mental asylum.
* '''Reconstructed''':English is the official language. The other language(s) are used like Latin communication barrier is in RealLife.broken through writing, ala Literature/CharlottesWeb.
* '''Reconstructed''':
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'''Basic Trope''': A show's setting implies that a certain language is being spoken, but the characters speak a different one for the convenience of the audience.
* '''Straight''': ''Tropers'' is an American movie set in France, but all of the main characters speak English.
* '''Straight''': ''Tropers'' is an American movie set in France, but all of the main characters speak English.
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'''Basic Trope''': A show's setting implies The actors are speaking the audience's language, but it's implied that a certain language is being spoken, but the characters don't speak a different one for the convenience of the audience.
audience's language.
* '''Straight''': ''Tropers'' is an American movie set in France, but all of the maincharacters actors speak English.
* '''Straight''': ''Tropers'' is an American movie set in France, but all of the main
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* '''Justified''':
** The setting uses either a magical or technological translation device that renders everything spoken into a language that the viewpoint character (and the audience) understands.
** To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
** The setting uses either a magical or technological translation device that renders everything spoken into a language that the viewpoint character (and the audience) understands.
** To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
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* '''Justified''':
**'''Justified''': The setting uses either a magical or technological translation device that renders everything spoken into a language that the viewpoint character (and the audience) understands.
** To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.understands.
**
** To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
** To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
** The characters actually speak English alongside the language of their setting.
** The characters actually speak English alongside the language of their setting.
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** The characters actually speak English alongside the language of their setting.
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** Scenes where the point of view character understands French have the characters speak English so the audience understands too, scenees with character's that do not speak French have the dialogue untranslated.
* '''Averted''': ''Tropers'' is an American movie set in France, and all of the main characters (or at least all the locals) speak French.
* '''Averted''': ''Tropers'' is an American movie set in France, and all of the main characters (or at least all the locals) speak French.
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** Scenes where the point of view character understands French have the characters speak English so the audience understands too, scenees scenes with character's characters that do not speak French have the dialogue untranslated.
* '''Averted''': ''Tropers'' is an American movie set in France, and all of the maincharacters actors (or at least all the locals) speak French.
* '''Averted''': ''Tropers'' is an American movie set in France, and all of the main
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* '''Lampshaded''': Alice complains about everyone speaking English in France.
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* '''Lampshaded''': Alice complains about "If the audience hears me speaking English, why does everyone in America hear me speaking English in France.French when I try to talk to them?"
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* '''Exploited''': Alice is moving to France and doesn't bother learning the language, because she knows everyone will speak English.
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* '''Exploited''': Alice Alice, who is moving from France, travels to France America and doesn't bother learning starts yelling insults at the language, locals, because she knows everyone they will speak English.only hear her yelling in French.
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* '''Discussed''': Alice, an American, arrives in France. When she doesn't understand anything, Bob explains that in RealLife, the French speak French.
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* '''Discussed''': Alice, an American, who is from France, arrives in France. America. When she doesn't understand anything, everybody understands her, Bob explains that in RealLife, the French speak French.if it sounds like you're speaking English, then you are speaking English.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice decides to travel to France to improve her French. She is furious when everyone keeps speaking English.
* '''Played For Drama''': French is becoming a dead language, so people have turned to speaking English. Alice tries to make people realise the importance of their cultural heritage.
* '''Played For Drama''': French is becoming a dead language, so people have turned to speaking English. Alice tries to make people realise the importance of their cultural heritage.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice decides Alice, who is from France, travels to travel America and tries to France talk to improve her French. the locals. She is furious frustrated when everyone keeps all they hear is her speaking English.
French.
* '''Played For Drama''':French Alice, who is becoming a dead language, so people have turned is from France, gets lost in England. When she tries to ask the locals for help, nobody understands her, because all they hear is her speaking English. Alice tries to make people realise the importance of their cultural heritage.French.
* '''Played For Drama''':
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* '''Inverted''': ''Tropers'', an American movie set in France, has Bob the Tourist's English lines rendered in gibberish so the audience won't understand them.
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* '''Inverted''': ''Tropers'', an American movie set in France, has Bob the Tourist's tourist's English lines rendered in gibberish so the audience won't understand them.
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** The characters ''actually'' speak English alongside the language of their setting.
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** The characters ''actually'' actually speak English alongside the language of their setting.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': The French characters' lines alternate between plain English, French-accented English, French with English subtitles, French without English subtitles and back to plain English.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Zagged''':
** The French characters' lines alternate between plain English, French-accented English, French with English subtitles, French without English subtitles and back to plainEnglish.English.
** Scenes where the point of view character understands French have the characters speak English so the audience understands too, scenees with character's that do not speak French have the dialogue untranslated.
** The French characters' lines alternate between plain English, French-accented English, French with English subtitles, French without English subtitles and back to plain
** Scenes where the point of view character understands French have the characters speak English so the audience understands too, scenees with character's that do not speak French have the dialogue untranslated.
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* '''Parodied''': The actors speak the audience's language... But the characters speak just as hilariously poorly as they speak the language they're actually speaking in the story. (For example: [[AlloAllo Officer Crabtree]])
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* '''Parodied''': The actors speak the audience's language... But the characters speak just as hilariously poorly as they speak the language they're actually speaking in the story. (For example: [[AlloAllo [[Series/AlloAllo Officer Crabtree]])
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': If the protagonist the action is currently focused on is fluent in the language the characters speak, it will be translated as accented English. If not, it simply will stay in the language they are actually speaking as a BilingualBonus.
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': '''IntendedAudienceReaction''': If the protagonist the action is currently focused on is fluent in the language the characters speak, it will be translated as accented English. If not, it simply will stay in the language they are actually speaking as a BilingualBonus.
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': If the protagonist the action is currently focused on is fluent in the language the characters speak, it will be translated as accented English. If not, it simply will stay in the language they are actually speaking as a BilingualBonus, or worse, they will be speaking in foreign sounding gibberish.
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': If the protagonist the action is currently focused on is fluent in the language the characters speak, it will be translated as accented English. If not, it simply will stay in the language they are actually speaking as a BilingualBonus, BilingualBonus.
** In an RPG with heavy character customization, including which language your character speak, you can get useful information if your character is fluent because of TranslationConvention (Say your character speak Russian and an enemy Russian mercenary yells "Throwing a grenade!",he will do so in accented yet understandable English), orworse, they fail to get any information at all even if you actually know the language because if your character doesn't speak the language, anything that is in universe spoken in this language will be speaking rendered in a foreign sounding gibberish.SpeakingSimlish fashion (so that even native Russian speaking players won't be able to understand the Russian mercenary yelling he is about to throw a grenade if the character they're playing doesn't speak Russian).
** In an RPG with heavy character customization, including which language your character speak, you can get useful information if your character is fluent because of TranslationConvention (Say your character speak Russian and an enemy Russian mercenary yells "Throwing a grenade!",he will do so in accented yet understandable English), or
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': If the protagonist the action is currently focused on is fluent in the language the characters speak, it will be translated as accented English. If not, it simply will stay in the language they are actually speaking as a BilingualBonus.
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': If the protagonist the action is currently focused on is fluent in the language the characters speak, it will be translated as accented English. If not, it simply will stay in the language they are actually speaking as a BilingualBonus.BilingualBonus, or worse, they will be speaking in foreign sounding gibberish.
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': if the protagonist the action is currently focused on is fluent in the language the characters speak, it will be translated as accented English. If not, it simply will stay in the language they are actually speaking as a BilingualBonus.
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': if If the protagonist the action is currently focused on is fluent in the language the characters speak, it will be translated as accented English. If not, it simply will stay in the language they are actually speaking as a BilingualBonus.
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': if the protagonist the action is currently focused on is fluent in the language the characters speak, it will be translated as accented English. If not, it simply will stay in the language they are actually speaking as a BilingualBonus.
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* '''Justified''': The setting uses either a magical or technological translation device that renders everything spoken into a language that the viewpoint character (and the audience) understands.
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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
** The setting uses either a magical or technological translation device that renders everything spoken into a language that the viewpoint character (and the audience)understands.understands.
** To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
** The setting uses either a magical or technological translation device that renders everything spoken into a language that the viewpoint character (and the audience)
** To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
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I'm assuming that they just copy and pasted the lines from the bottom without getting rid of the percentage signs.
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%%* '''Exploited''': Alice is moving to France and doesn't bother learning the language, because she knows everyone will speak English.
%%* '''Defied''': "Stop speaking English! We are in France, we all know French, lets speak French, for heavens sake!"
%%* '''Defied''': "Stop speaking English! We are in France, we all know French, lets speak French, for heavens sake!"
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%%* '''Deconstructed''': English is the international language. All other languages are dead, and with them many cultures.
%%* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are used like Latin is in RealLife.
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice decides to travel to France to improve her French. She is furious when everyone keeps speaking English.
%%* '''Played For Drama''': French is becoming a dead language, so people have turned to speaking English. Alice tries to make people realise the importance of their cultural heritage.
%%* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are used like Latin is in RealLife.
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice decides to travel to France to improve her French. She is furious when everyone keeps speaking English.
%%* '''Played For Drama''': French is becoming a dead language, so people have turned to speaking English. Alice tries to make people realise the importance of their cultural heritage.
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I think that's correct, don't sue me if it isn't.
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* '''Inverted''': ''Tropers'', an American movie set in France, has Bob the Tourists English lines rendered in gibberish so the audience won't understand them.
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* '''Inverted''': ''Tropers'', an American movie set in France, has Bob the Tourists Tourist's English lines rendered in gibberish so the audience won't understand them.
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* '''Subverted''': The setting implies that the characters would be speaking a different language, only for one of the characters who the audience would expect to speak their language to comment on how well the others speak his language...
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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
** The setting implies that the characters would be speaking a different language, only for one of the characters who the audience would expect to speak their language to comment on how well the others speak hislanguage...language...
** The characters ''actually'' speak English alongside the language of their setting.
** The setting implies that the characters would be speaking a different language, only for one of the characters who the audience would expect to speak their language to comment on how well the others speak his
** The characters ''actually'' speak English alongside the language of their setting.
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* '''Inverted''':
** ''Tropers'', an American movie set in France, has Bob the Tourists English lines rendered in gibberish so the audience won't understand them.
** ''Tropers'', an American movie set in France, has Bob the Tourists English lines rendered in gibberish so the audience won't understand them.
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* '''Inverted''':
**'''Inverted''': ''Tropers'', an American movie set in France, has Bob the Tourists English lines rendered in gibberish so the audience won't understand them.
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At the risk of sounding rude: The trope is \'in story the conversations are in a language the audience doesn\'t understand, but for the sake of the audience the actors speak a language they do\'... Not \'Americans are ethnocentric and expect everyone to speak english, lol.\' If the \'\'\'characters\'\'\' are actually speaking english (or japanese, because this trope is just as common to anime/manga), it\'s not this trope.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Everyone speaks English, there are no other languages.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': All of the characters are either English monolinguals or multi-linguals with English as one of their languages, which is used for convenience.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': All of the characters are either English monolinguals or multi-linguals with English as one of their languages, which is used for convenience.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Everyone speaks English, there Even terms that the audience would understand and given names are no other languages.
translated into the audience's language.
* '''Downplayed''':???
Only languages that the viewpoint character speaks are translated and terms that the audience would understand are left untranslated.
* '''Justified''':All of the characters are The setting uses either English monolinguals a magical or multi-linguals with English as one of their languages, which is used for convenience.technological translation device that renders everything spoken into a language that the viewpoint character (and the audience) understands.
* '''Downplayed''':
* '''Justified''':
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** ''Troping for Tropes'' is an American movie set in the United States, but everyone speaks French.
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* '''Subverted''': Claudette (the first French character to appear in ''Tropers'') speaks French and only French...
* '''Double Subverted''': ...but she was employing ObfuscatingStupidity, and speaks English perfectly well.
* '''Parodied''':
** In an American movie, the French government announces that ''[[JustAStupidAccent English with a French accent]]'' will be the new official language in France.
** An American movie set in France depicts a number of German tourists speaking Russian with a Swedish accent.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The French characters' lines alternate between plain English, French-accented English, French with English subtitles, French without English subtitles, French with non-English subtitles, random other languages with varying types of subtitles, and random gibberish with varying types of subtitles, [[MindScrew sometimes within the same conversation]].
* '''Double Subverted''': ...but she was employing ObfuscatingStupidity, and speaks English perfectly well.
* '''Parodied''':
** In an American movie, the French government announces that ''[[JustAStupidAccent English with a French accent]]'' will be the new official language in France.
** An American movie set in France depicts a number of German tourists speaking Russian with a Swedish accent.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The French characters' lines alternate between plain English, French-accented English, French with English subtitles, French without English subtitles, French with non-English subtitles, random other languages with varying types of subtitles, and random gibberish with varying types of subtitles, [[MindScrew sometimes within the same conversation]].
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* '''Subverted''': Claudette (the first French character to appear in ''Tropers'') speaks French and The setting implies that the characters would be speaking a different language, only French...
for one of the characters who the audience would expect to speak their language to comment on how well the others speak his language...
* '''Double Subverted''': ...butshe was employing ObfuscatingStupidity, and speaks English perfectly well.
* '''Parodied''':
** In an American movie,it turns out he's not speaking the French government announces that ''[[JustAStupidAccent English with a French accent]]'' will be the new official language in France.
** An American movie set in France depicts a number of German touriststhe audience does either.
* '''Parodied''': The actors speak the audience's language... But the characters speak just as hilariously poorly as they speak the language they're actually speakingRussian with a Swedish accent.
in the story. (For example: [[AlloAllo Officer Crabtree]])
* '''Zig Zagged''': The French characters' lines alternate between plain English, French-accented English, French with English subtitles, French without Englishsubtitles, French with non-English subtitles, random other languages with varying types of subtitles, subtitles and random gibberish with varying types of subtitles, [[MindScrew sometimes within the same conversation]].back to plain English.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...but
* '''Parodied''':
** In an American movie,
** An American movie set in France depicts a number of German tourists
* '''Parodied''': The actors speak the audience's language... But the characters speak just as hilariously poorly as they speak the language they're actually speaking
* '''Zig Zagged''': The French characters' lines alternate between plain English, French-accented English, French with English subtitles, French without English
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* '''Invoked''': Alice is filming a documentary about life in France, and tells everyone to speak English to allow the English audience to understand.
* '''Exploited''': Alice is moving to France and doesn't bother learning the language, because she knows everyone will speak English.
* '''Defied''': "Stop speaking English! We are in France, we all know French, lets speak French, for heavens sake!"
* '''Exploited''': Alice is moving to France and doesn't bother learning the language, because she knows everyone will speak English.
* '''Defied''': "Stop speaking English! We are in France, we all know French, lets speak French, for heavens sake!"
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* '''Deconstructed''': English is the international language. All other languages are dead, and with them many cultures.
* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are used like Latin is in RealLife.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice decides to travel to France to improve her French. She is furious when everyone keeps speaking English.
* '''Played For Drama''': French is becoming a dead language, so people have turned to speaking English. Alice tries to make people realise the importance of their cultural heritage.
* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are used like Latin is in RealLife.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice decides to travel to France to improve her French. She is furious when everyone keeps speaking English.
* '''Played For Drama''': French is becoming a dead language, so people have turned to speaking English. Alice tries to make people realise the importance of their cultural heritage.
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* '''Inverted''': ''Troping for Tropes'' is an American movie set in the United States, but everyone speaks French.
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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
** ''Troping for Tropes'' is an American movie set in the United States, but everyone speaksFrench.French.
** ''Tropers'', an American movie set in France, has Bob the Tourists English lines rendered in gibberish so the audience won't understand them.
** ''Troping for Tropes'' is an American movie set in the United States, but everyone speaks
** ''Tropers'', an American movie set in France, has Bob the Tourists English lines rendered in gibberish so the audience won't understand them.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???
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* '''Parodied''': In an American movie, the French government announces that ''[[JustAStupidAccent English with a French accent]]'' will be the new official language in France.
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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
** In an American movie, the French government announces that ''[[JustAStupidAccent English with a French accent]]'' will be the new official language in France.
** In an American movie, the French government announces that ''[[JustAStupidAccent English with a French accent]]'' will be the new official language in France.
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* '''Deconstructed''': English is the international language. All other languages are dead, and with them many cultures.
* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are used like Latin is in RealLife.
* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are used like Latin is in RealLife.
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* '''Enforced''': The movie is released in America and needs to bring a large audience in order for the director to keep working. Therefore, everyone speaks English, despite being set in France.
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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
** The movie is released in America and needs to bring a large audience in order for the director to keep working. Therefore, everyone speaks English, despite being set in France.
** The movie is released in America and needs to bring a large audience in order for the director to keep working. Therefore, everyone speaks English, despite being set in France.
* '''Deconstructed''': English is the international language. All other languages are dead, and with them many cultures.
* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are used like Latin is in RealLife.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are used like Latin is in RealLife.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
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* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are used like Latin is in the Real RealLife.
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* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are used like Latin is in the Real RealLife.
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Justified vs enforced
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* '''Justified''': The director wanted to make the film easier for an American audience to understand.
** The director couldn't find enough (or good enough) French-speaking actors.
** All of the characters are either English monolinguals or multi-linguals with English as one of their languages, which is used for convenience.
** The director couldn't find enough (or good enough) French-speaking actors.
** All of the characters are either English monolinguals or multi-linguals with English as one of their languages, which is used for convenience.
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* '''Justified''': The director wanted to make the film easier for an American audience to understand.
** The director couldn't find enough (or good enough) French-speaking actors.
**All of the characters are either English monolinguals or multi-linguals with English as one of their languages, which is used for convenience.
** The director couldn't find enough (or good enough) French-speaking actors.
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'''Basic Trope''': A show's setting implies that a certain language is being spoken, but the characters speak a different for the convenience of the audience.
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'''Basic Trope''': A show's setting implies that a certain language is being spoken, but the characters speak a different one for the convenience of the audience.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Everyone speaks English, there is no other languages.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Everyone speaks English, there is are no other languages.
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* '''Parodied''': In an American movie, the French government announces that ''English with a French accent'' will be the new official language in France.
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* '''Parodied''': In an American movie, the French government announces that ''English ''[[JustAStupidAccent English with a French accent'' accent]]'' will be the new official language in France.
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* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are use like Latin is in the Real RealLife.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The French characters' lines alternate between plain English, French-accented English, French with English subtitles, French without English subtitles, French with non-English subtitles, random other languages with varying types of subtitles, and random gibberish with varying types of subtitles, sometimes within the same conversation.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The French characters' lines alternate between plain English, French-accented English, French with English subtitles, French without English subtitles, French with non-English subtitles, random other languages with varying types of subtitles, and random gibberish with varying types of subtitles, sometimes within the same conversation.
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* '''Reconstructed''': English is the official language. The other language(s) are use used like Latin is in the Real RealLife.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The French characters' lines alternate between plain English, French-accented English, French with English subtitles, French without English subtitles, French with non-English subtitles, random other languages with varying types of subtitles, and random gibberish with varying types of subtitles, [[MindScrew sometimes within the sameconversation.conversation]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': The French characters' lines alternate between plain English, French-accented English, French with English subtitles, French without English subtitles, French with non-English subtitles, random other languages with varying types of subtitles, and random gibberish with varying types of subtitles, [[MindScrew sometimes within the same
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Filling in examples.
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* '''Double Subverted''': ...but she was employing [[obfuscating stupidity]], and speaks English perfectly well.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
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* '''Double Subverted''': ...but she was employing [[obfuscating stupidity]], ObfuscatingStupidity, and speaks English perfectly well.
* '''Parodied''':???
In an American movie, the French government announces that ''English with a French accent'' will be the new official language in France.
** An American movie set in France depicts a number of German tourists speaking Russian with a Swedish accent.
* '''Deconstructed''':???
English is the international language. All other languages are dead, and with them many cultures.
* '''Reconstructed''':???English is the official language. The other language(s) are use like Latin is in the Real RealLife.
* '''Parodied''':
** An American movie set in France depicts a number of German tourists speaking Russian with a Swedish accent.
* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
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''Tropers'' is an American movie set in France, and all of the main characters (or at least all the locals) speak French.
* '''Enforced''':???
The movie is released in America and needs to bring a large audience in order for the director to keep working. Therefore, everyone speaks English, despite being set in France.
* '''Lampshaded''':???
Alice complains about everyone speaking English in France.
* '''Invoked''':???
Alice is filming a documentary about life in France, and tells everyone to speak English to allow the English audience to understand.
* '''Exploited''':???
Alice is moving to France and doesn't bother learning the language, because she knows everyone will speak English.
* '''Defied''':???
"Stop speaking English! We are in France, we all know French, lets speak French, for heavens sake!"
* '''Discussed''':???
Alice, an American, arrives in France. When she doesn't understand anything, Bob explains that in RealLife, the French speak French.
* '''Conversed''':???"Why do characters in French movies always speak English with a French accent?"
* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice decides to travel to France to improve her French. She is furious when everyone keeps speaking English.
* '''Played For Drama''': French is becoming a dead language, so people have turned to speaking English. Alice tries to make people realise the importance of their cultural heritage.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice decides to travel to France to improve her French. She is furious when everyone keeps speaking English.
* '''Played For Drama''': French is becoming a dead language, so people have turned to speaking English. Alice tries to make people realise the importance of their cultural heritage.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': To make communication between nations easier, France has made English a second official language. Everyone starts speaking English.
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* '''Exaggerated''': ???Everyone speaks English, there is no other languages.
