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Author: XFllo

Nov 30th 2012 at 10:48:55 AM

I'm sorry I haven't noticed this ykttw earlier. It just popped up when I was searching for my own entry '''Language Barrier'''. The trope you propose is an important part of it. Perhaps this is a sub-trope?

Have a look here:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=w5d19i90fnkutclrw4de5v7z

I quite like the current name. But maybe '''Foreigners Speaking Loudly and Slowly''' would be even more transparent in conveying its meaning.

Anyway, I have two examples for you:

* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Darmok" deals with UniversalTranslator Failure and an encounter with friendly, yet absolutely incomprehensible aliens. Both crews try this approach, which arguably slightly works, but both could grasp only very, very little.

* {{Conversed}} by SFDebris in his opinionated episode guide of the episode "Darmok" from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
--> '''SF Debris''': I'll check [Picard's] academy records. His  language course was 203. Let me cross-check that. Oh yes! He's fluent in yelling at people. This is the time honoured method of speaking your own language loudly and somewhat slowly to people who don't speak it, in the hopes that they will suddenly understand you. ({{beat}}) The others just laugh at him.

That could easily make a quote for this trope:-)