History Main / LittleProfessorDialog

** Pearl is surprisingly deductive, logical, and aware of the consequences of many things legal and moral, often seen giving advice and added perspective to Phoenix Wright when in a serious moment. Sure, she is the coddled daughter of a {{Chessmaster}}, and a spiritual prodigy, but the girl is only ''nine''. Then again, her favorite TV show is ''Kid's Masterpiece Theatre''. In Japanese, she also has an impressive grasp of the complicated system of honorific/humble language. The last case in the original trilogy, however, has as a plot point that while she talks above her grade level, she's not too hot at ''reading'' yet. In the Japanese version, she can't fully understand kanji; in the English version, she misreads the phrase [[spoiler:gravely roast as roast's gravy]].

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld]]'' continuum where Ponder Stibbons is married with children, his youngest daughter Ruth can talk like this. However, as she is truly a ChildProdigy and also has a practical intelligence inherited from her Assassin mother, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13154617/38/The-Price-of-Flight Ruth has learnt to tone it down]] to what she describes as ''talking-to-parents'', so as to get her ideas across more simply.

* The children in ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' and [[VideoGame/Kindergarten2 its sequel]] often use words and phrases you wouldn't expect kindergarteners to know, such as "neanderthal", "octogenarian", and "probable cause". Of course, considering the children's [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior other characteristics]], this isn't that surprising.

* Kyon from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. The offhand math references, the science, the multi-cultural references, ancient philosophy, history, phonetics. All from a supposedly average High School Student. Top that with how his choice of words and terminology even in casual dialogue, in Japanese, makes him sound like someone in their 50s. [[DirectLineToTheAuthor Then again he is telling the story in the past tense...]] That, and Kyon is heavily hinted to be much, much smarter than he lets on, occasionally. After all, he ''did'' solve the Remote Island Incident with little help.

* One problem people have with the writing in ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'' is that the main characters are mostly very young children, but speak like adults. Characters like Lutz ''are'' considered unusually mature, but maturity doesn't equal education and experience.

--> "Just a man and his thoughts. [{{Beat}}] And his [=iPhone=]. With an E-Trade app."

* Kyon from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. The offhand math references, the science, the multi-cultural references, ancient philosophy, history, phonetics. All from a supposedly average High School Student. Top that with how his choice of words and terminology even in casual dialogue, in Japanese, makes him sound like someone in their 50's. [[DirectLineToTheAuthor Then again he is telling the story in the past tense...]] That, and Kyon is heavily hinted to be much, much smarter than he lets on, occasionally. After all, he ''did'' solve the Remote Island Incident with little help.

* Features heavily in ''ComicBook/PS238'', mostly from children who are WiseBeyondTheirYears such as Zodon, Victor and Tom (Murphy may or may not count -- as a child, that is). USA Patriot and American Eagle also do this a lot, though much of what they're saying sounds more like rehearsed talking points than things they've come up with on their own. Most of the kids avert it, however.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Frazz}}'' regularly employs 5-9 year old students more intelligent than most adults. The other main character aside from Frazz himself, the irresistable Caulfield, plays a bored genius who has read more books in a month than most adults do a year and spouts observations about life and culture like nobody's business. Every other student Frazz gets to know likewise seem to carry inexplicable wisdom that, if only put into the hands of their administrators, would probably fix many of America's public education problems.

* The protagonists of ''Literature/{{Twig}}'' are a group of eleven and twelve year olds, but they speak using advanced terminology, mimicking the environment and time they were raised in (an AlternateHistory early twentieth century, in a lab environment). However, they'll often insert more childlike phrases into their dialogue with one another.

* On ''Series/{{Bones}}'', Brennan is teaching her young daughter to speak precisely, including using 5 dollar words.

** Pearl is surprisingly deductive, logical, and aware of the consequences of many things legal and moral, often seen giving advice and added perspective to Phoenix Wright when in a serious moment. Sure, she is the coddled daughter of a {{Chessmaster}}, and a spiritual prodigy, but the girl is only ''nine''. Then again, her favorite TV show is ''Kid's Masterpiece Theatre''. In Japanese, she also has an impressive grasp on the complicated system of honorific/humble language. The last case in the original trilogy, however, has as a plot point that while she talks above her grade level, she's not too hot at ''reading'' yet. In the Japanese version, she can't fully understand kanji; in the English version, she misreads the phrase [[spoiler:gravely roast as roast's gravy]].

* Many important characters in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' are around Link's age, which is somewhere around 10-12. Yet, their dialogue ''barely'' differs from that of the adult characters. Especially Medli and Tetra, who are WiseBeyondTheirYears. Played with in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' with Saria, who speaks very sophisticated from time to time as well. She looks like a child, but is probably much OlderThanTheyLook.
* Simba, Uhura's infant son in ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'', will do this the first time you talk to him. Attempting to talk to him again will have the hero decide not to, since he's such a show-off.

* ''WebComic/SomethingPositive'': Just about every child talks like a snarky, cynical adult. Including to the other snarky, cynical adults that make up the main cast.

'''Wendell''': Volcabulary?

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has a kid who said that he wantess a role model "that I can look up to emulate." Seeking a role model, and using a word like "emulate"? Not nearly as bad as Arnold telling a marketing man that he "saturated the market" with too much of his product. How old are these kids? Fourth grade.

--> "It is gratifying seeing adults concerned with preteen oral hygeine."
* Try watching any cartoon that has been dubbed to Latin American Spanish and pay attention to the dialogue. When a little kid starts talking fancy, with neutral accent and using baroque words, the rest of the world assumes he/she saw way too much TV. And there starts the mocking.

* The Brain on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' is [[WiseBeyondTheirYears wise beyond his years]], so he often uses polysyllabic synonyms for ordinary words, like "miniscule" or "rigorous". He sometimes gets confused by shorter, simpler terms like "goon", though.

* Pre-TeenGenius ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' uses this extensively. ''The Eternity Code'' sees him scare the wits out of an ordinary waitress with his adult (and ultra-sophisticated) behavior, and in ''The Time Paradox'' it gets put into perspective when we realize that the "present" Artemis is actually a lot better at acting his age than he was when he was 10. It is tempting to blame ParentalAbandonment for this, but ''The Time Paradox'' ''also'' revealed that he was acting -- and speaking -- like that even before his father went missing.Though he still thinks like a kid in some ways; in the first book, Holly says something sarcastic about lollipops as she's making her escape, and Artemis' first two thoughts are, in order, that he doesn't like lollipops, and that using the word "lollipop" is beneath the dignity of his intellect. Which, of course, leads one to the question of how he plans to patronize children himself when he grows up.

* "Woke Toddler [[Website/{{Twitter}} Tweets]]" are a social media phenomenon where an adult, attempting to create a FromTheMouthsOfBabes effect, quotes their young child as having a right-on opinion about some political topic. Due to [[MostWritersAreAdults most writers being adults]], however, these tend to be written in an adult style, making them seem unconvincing ("Watching the debates and my four-year-old turned to me and said, 'why is democracy dying?'"). After a few high-profile Twitter pundits got caught out making up dialogue for their children (or the fact that they even have children in the first place) in 2016, it became common to see parodies exaggerating the implausibility (e.g. "Watching the debates and my 7-day-old embryo said 'in accordance with Marxist dialectic, capitalism will sow the seeds of its own destruction.'")

* On ''Series/{{Bones}}'' Brennan is teaching her young daughter to speak precisely, including using 5 dollar words.

* Early readers often have this and may run the risk of being mistaken for autistic (let alone having Asperger Syndrome).

* "Woke Toddler [[Website/{{Twitter}} Tweets]]" are a social media phenomenon where an adult, attempting to create a FromTheMouthsOfBabes effect, quotes their young child as having a right-on opinion about some political topic. Due to [[MostWritersAreAdults most writers being adults]], however, these tend to be written in an adult style, making them seem unconvincing ("Watching the debates and my four-year-old turned to me and said, 'why is democracy dying?'"). After a few high-profile Twitter pundits got caught out making up dialogue for their children (or the fact that they even have children in the first place) in 2016, it became common to see parodies taking the implausibility UpToEleven (e.g. "Watching the debates and my 7-day-old embryo said 'in accordance with Marxist dialectic, capitalism will sow the seeds of its own destruction.'")

Kids that speak by throwing around big words that you'd usually find in scientific journals or old English texts. This is either an indicator of the kid being a ChildProdigy or trying to simply [[DelusionsOfEloquence sound like one]]. Often combined with SesquipedalianLoquaciousness.