1 | '''Basic Trope''': An alien language is grammatically almost identical to the language of the target audience. |
2 | * '''Straight''': The inhabitants of Planet Troperius speak a language with grammar similar to that of European languages. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': The language of Planet Troperius is [[AliensSpeakingEnglish almost perfect English]]. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': The language of Planet Troperius has an unusual grammar, but enough for the universal translator to pick it up. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** The inhabitants of Troperius are HumanAliens, descended from Proto-Indo-Europeans who discovered a wormhole, ended up there, and evolved much like the various humans of Earth did. |
7 | ** In ages past, aliens enslaved an Indo-European tribe. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters He Who Fought Oppressors]] became oppressive in turn, and the resulting empire dominated the galaxy, and the majority of alien languages today are descended from the language of TheEmpire. |
8 | ** The structures of the sentences (not only with Indo-European languages, but in general with those of planet Earth) are more common throughout the universe than it may seem. |
9 | * '''Inverted''': |
10 | ** The inhabitants of Planet Troperius speak a totally alien language even the universal translator can't decipher. |
11 | ** Humans learned Proto-Indo-European from alien precursors. |
12 | * '''Subverted''': Troperians speak a language that ''looks'' or ''sounds'' Indo-European at first, but the grammar is actually exotic bordering on StarfishLanguage. |
13 | * '''Double Subverted''': In the end it turns out that they were misunderstanding him and if they structurally resemble Indo-European languages. |
14 | * '''Parodied''': The aliens often complain about the absurd grammar of their own language, which is almost identical to [[TakeThat [=[Insert Target Indo-European Here]=]]]. |
15 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': |
16 | ** The structure varies according to the meaning of the sentence. |
17 | ** The aliens come from a [[MulticulturalAlienPlanet multicultural planet]], and the structure of the phrases is variable according to the culture. |
18 | * '''Averted''': The structure of the sentences is totally different from those of the Indo-European languages. |
19 | * '''Enforced''': "We need an alien language whose structure is easy to remember." |
20 | * '''Lampshaded''': "The grammatical structures are very similar to those of the Indo-European languages, what were the chances of that happening?" |
21 | * '''Invoked''': The aliens had no language, then they made FirstContact with a human who natively spoke an Indo-European language, and when they return to their homeworld, they teach that language to the other inhabitants, who use it as the base for their own language. |
22 | * '''Exploited''': During the FirstContact, translators compare their phrases with those of Indo-European languages. |
23 | * '''Defied''': The aliens try to make their language less reminiscient from European languages, thinking that they will confuse humans. |
24 | * '''Discussed''': "This is my thesis, on why the dominant language of Troperius looks like a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centum-Satem_isogloss satem]] version of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Celtic_language Proto-Celtic]] with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verner%27s_law Verner's law]]." |
25 | * '''Conversed''': "I wonder why aliens speak [[BlatantLies Indo-European]] langauges." |
26 | * '''Deconstructed''': The [[AliensAreBastards aliens came with warlike intentions]], but once somebody who speaks English figures out their language's grammatical similarity to English, it becomes only a matter of time before humans repel the attack. |
27 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
28 | ** The aliens are so far ahead in their plan of conquest that humans figuring out how to decode their language wouldn't do much good now. |
29 | ** The aliens began their invasion in a remote place where English isn't yet widespread. |
30 | ** The aliens ''also'' have languages that are like Finnish, Mandarin, Swahili, and Cree, and [[HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier they use those to communicate once their English is found out]]. |
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32 | Back to IndoEuropeanAlienLanguage |
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34 | %%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
35 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
36 | %%* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ??? |
37 | %%* '''Played for Laughs''': ??? |
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