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Author: Aielyn

May 31st 2011 at 2:53:56 AM

Personally, I'd like to see this trope expanded out to a more general ExtremelyLimitedVocabulary, or something, with PokemonSpeak being the subtrope handling single word vocabularies, which are notable, since one cannot really express ''anything'' with only a one-word vocabulary, whereas simply having very, very few words, but enough to actually say things of relevance, is still a trope.

If this split happens, I'd offer one of the WhoseLineIsItAnyway? games as an example of the broader trope - namely, the game where two of the comedians are given precisely two sentences they're able to say, such as "What does that do?" and "I don't like it". HilarityEnsues.

PokemonSpeak clearly needs to be tidied up, and isolating it to "exactly one word vocabulary, no matter what that word is" would fit the bill. And if there's room to modify the standard name, I'd offer PikaSpeak, which is a play on Pokemon, but also on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico- pico-]], the very small SI prefix.

EDIT: Also, in this situation, I'd suggest WelcomeToCorneria as another subtrope.