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->''"I realize this moment may not be the mosssst...convenient for a heart. To heart. But, I had to wait until your...friends, mhah, were otherwise, occupiiiiied."''
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->''"I realize this moment may not be the mosssst...convenient for a heart. To heart. But, I had to wait until your... friends, mhah, heh, were otherwise, occupiiiiied."''
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->'''Wreck-Gar:''' Yes, friends, act now! Destroy [[PlanetEater Unicron]]! Kill the Grand Poobah! Eliminate even the toughest stains!
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* [[TransformersGeneration1 Junkions]] speak in odd mishmashes of television quotes.
->'''Wreck-Gar:''' Yes, friends, act now! Destroy [[PlanetEater Unicron]]! Kill the Grand Poobah! Eliminate even the toughest stains!
->'''Wreck-Gar:''' Yes, friends, act now! Destroy [[PlanetEater Unicron]]! Kill the Grand Poobah! Eliminate even the toughest stains!
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* In KurtVonnegut's ''Deadeye Dick'', Haitian Creole is said to only have a present tense, leading to some very odd grammar. Of course, it's implied that the Haitians simply don't bother trying to teach the American proper grammar.
-->"He is dead?" he said in Creole. "He is dead," I agreed. "What does he do?" he said. "He paints," I said. "I like him," he said.
-->"He is dead?" he said in Creole. "He is dead," I agreed. "What does he do?" he said. "He paints," I said. "I like him," he said.
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** Sadly, it's also a prime example of PlotInducedStupidity on the part of the Enterprise' crew. "Computer: Cross-reference: Darmok, Jhillard, Tanagra." Computer tells the story, they go "Ah!" Clearly, Starfleet does not value clear thinking.
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Rhyming isn\'t \"syntax\".
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** Also from the movie, Wheelie speaks exclusively in rhyme.
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* ''TheFairlyOddparents'' has an alien race called the Gigglepies, who speak in rhyme. It might be just an act, however.
** One video game based on the series, "Breakin' Da Rules," has a bit part played by a Yugopotamian known only as the "Irritating Rhyming Guard". Guess why.
** One video game based on the series, "Breakin' Da Rules," has a bit part played by a Yugopotamian known only as the "Irritating Rhyming Guard". Guess why.
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* In ''{{Star Trek III The Search for Spock}}'', the big-eared alien [=McCoy=] meets in a bar speaks in odd syntax.
--->"I name not important. You seek I." "Mutara restricted. Take permits many. Money, more."
--->"I name not important. You seek I." "Mutara restricted. Take permits many. Money, more."
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** One story in ''TheSimpsons'' "Treehouse of Horror V" features Homer traveling through time and [[ButterflyOfDoom changing history]] as a result. One such future is a {{Dystopia}} ruled by Ned Flanders, who rules with a [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] form of [=NewSpeak=].
--->"Heidely-ho, slaverinos!"
--->"Heidely-ho, slaverinos!"
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**The Scissormen's speech is made even better by the fact that they speak in gibberish and anagrams simultaneously.
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* [[http://www.neorice.com/aptgg_215 Lacey]] from ''APathToGreaterGood''.
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* Herald Alberich from MercedesLackey's HeraldsOfValdemar series routinely speaks Valdemaran with Karsite word order. He was born and raised in Karse and only ended up in Valdemar after being kidnapped/rescued by a [[IntellectualAnimal Companion]], who eventually psychically fed Valdemarian vocabulary into his head... and ''only'' vocabulary, leading Alberich to use Valdemarian words with Karsite grammar.
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** This is also a case of YouFailLinguisticsForever; if metaphors become standardized and use long enough, the metaphorical meaning ''becomes'' the literal meaning, creating what's called a dead metaphor. Case in point: "understand" in modern English has nothing to do with standing under anything.
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** That is what Aliss allows him to believe. In reality, he is a cloned body housing the consciousness of one such aquatic sophont.
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** You could maybe get around the fridge logic by saying that the children are taught the stories via some visual medium, like movies or plays, with no dialog. What is still unexplained is why the universal translator even translates their language in the metaphorical way in the first place, when we know the UT works on some kind of technological telepathy. If when they say "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" they mean "alliance", then why doesn't the UT just translate it as "alliance"?
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** There is a Yoda voice module available for car GPS devices. Even the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdcJVuylmsM ad for it]] points out that Yoda's driving directions could get someone killed.
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* A peripheral alien character in the StarTrekTitan series of books started out speaking in mangled syntax (which makes no sense; as a Starfleet officer, he would have a universal translator). He's since stopped doing that.
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*** This is similar to how [[AxeCrazy HK-47]] and the HK-50 models talk in the ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' games. However, unlike the Elcor, they are perfectly capable of modulating their speech synthesizers to add inflection, making prefixes like "Annoyed statement:" mostly unnecessary but [[RuleOfFunny funny]].
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** This seems to be specific to the character, as other members of his species shown in [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse EU]] speak normally.
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Don't break the joke...
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ZeroWingrish is comparing.
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Zestful? ZeroWingrish is comparing.
would compare concepts.
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ZeroWingrish is comparing.
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*** All explained in the StarTrekExpandedUniverse. The story "Friends with the Sparrows" answers these questions. For the "building starships" answer: Tamarian mathematical and musical notations are very closely linked. Tamarian engineers and programmers literally sing equations, transferring instructions through music. Even in ordinary speech, numerical information can be conveyed through the pitch of a Tamarian’s vocal harmonics, though it can be hard for Human ears to discern the nuances.
--> "This answers the infamous question one linguist posed to illustrate the apparent limitations of Tamarian as a practical language: “Mirab-his-sails-unfurled factor what, sir?”
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*** All explained in the StarTrekExpandedUniverse. The story "Friends with the Sparrows" answers these questions. For the "building starships" answer: Tamarian mathematical and musical notations are very closely linked. Tamarian engineers and programmers literally sing equations, transferring instructions through music. Even in ordinary speech, numerical information can be conveyed through the pitch of a Tamarian’s vocal harmonics, though it can be hard for Human ears to discern the nuances.
--> "This answers the infamous question one linguist posed to illustrate the apparent limitations of Tamarian as a practical language: “Mirab-his-sails-unfurled factor what, sir?”
--> "This answers the infamous question one linguist posed to illustrate the apparent limitations of Tamarian as a practical language: “Mirab-his-sails-unfurled factor what, sir?”
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(Left lost by byzantine demonstrative description? [[StrangeSyntaxSpeakerDiscussion Read regular description directly.]])
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*** All explained in the StarTrekExpandedUniverse. The story "Friends with the Sparrows" answers these questions. For the "building starships" answer: Tamarian mathematical and musical notations are very closely linked. Tamarian engineers and programmers literally sing equations, transferring instructions through music. Even in ordinary speech, numerical information can be conveyed through the pitch of a Tamarian’s vocal harmonics, though it can be hard for Human ears to discern the nuances.
--> "This answers the infamous question one linguist posed to illustrate the apparent limitations of Tamarian as a practical language: “Mirab-his-sails-unfurled factor what, sir?”
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*** All explained in the StarTrekExpandedUniverse. The story "Friends with the Sparrows" answers these questions. For the "building starships" answer: Tamarian mathematical and musical notations are very closely linked. Tamarian engineers and programmers literally sing equations, transferring instructions through music. Even in ordinary speech, numerical information can be conveyed through the pitch of a Tamarian’s vocal harmonics, though it can be hard for Human ears to discern the nuances.
--> "This answers the infamous question one linguist posed to illustrate the apparent limitations of Tamarian as a practical language: “Mirab-his-sails-unfurled factor what, sir?”
--> "This answers the infamous question one linguist posed to illustrate the apparent limitations of Tamarian as a practical language: “Mirab-his-sails-unfurled factor what, sir?”
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* Nya! Of ''SuperMarioRPG'', both this and a regular VerbalTic, Bowyer uses. Nya!
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->--The G-Man, ''HalfLife ''{{Half-Life}} 2: Episode Two''
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* A minor alien species in ''MassEffect'', the Elcor, exhibit a form of this. They all speak in a deep monotone, and preface their sentences with the tone it would be in, e.g. "genuine enthusiasm," followed by a sentence with no noticeable enthusiasm.
** They talk like that with non-Elcor because they express emotion through pheromones, subsonics, and extremely subtle body language that most other species can't detect.
** On a related note, the Hanar's habit of referring to themselves as "this one" might count.
** Though really combination of TerseTalker and MotorMouth, Mordin Solis verges into StrangeSyntaxSpeaker due to combination of elided speech and TechnoBabble.
** They talk like that with non-Elcor because they express emotion through pheromones, subsonics, and extremely subtle body language that most other species can't detect.
** On a related note, the Hanar's habit of referring to themselves as "this one" might count.
** Though really combination of TerseTalker and MotorMouth, Mordin Solis verges into StrangeSyntaxSpeaker due to combination of elided speech and TechnoBabble.
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* A minor alien species in ''MassEffect'', the Elcor, elcor, exhibit a form of this. They all speak in a deep monotone, and preface their sentences with the tone it would be in, e.g. "genuine enthusiasm," followed by a sentence with no noticeable enthusiasm.
** They talk like that withnon-Elcor non-elcor because they express emotion through pheromones, subsonics, and extremely subtle body language that most other species can't detect.
*** It's implied that the rendering of the emotional prefix statement is due to the TranslatorMicrobes, as when a certain elcor is asked by his asari colleague if he had hacked his translator unit in order to 'speak' exactly how he wants, he replies, in an utter monotone, with: "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial With a sincerity such that scepticism would be deeply insulting:]] ...no."
** On a related note, theHanar's hanar's habit of referring to themselves as "this one" might count.
** Though really combination of TerseTalker and MotorMouth, MordinSolis Solus verges into StrangeSyntaxSpeaker due to combination of elided speech and TechnoBabble.
** They talk like that with
*** It's implied that the rendering of the emotional prefix statement is due to the TranslatorMicrobes, as when a certain elcor is asked by his asari colleague if he had hacked his translator unit in order to 'speak' exactly how he wants, he replies, in an utter monotone, with: "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial With a sincerity such that scepticism would be deeply insulting:]] ...no."
** On a related note, the
** Though really combination of TerseTalker and MotorMouth, Mordin
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*** What's interesting, is that this almost exactly matches the way JosephStalin spoke Russian. While he was Georgian, heis accent was almost non-existent and showed only in those strange emphases, wrong stresses and pauses where there should be none, combined with the strangely soft enunciation -- which, reportedly, made his speech all the more terrifying (and that probably was the reason he spoke that way).
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*** What's interesting, is that this almost exactly matches the way JosephStalin spoke Russian. While he was Georgian, heis his accent was almost non-existent and showed only in those strange emphases, wrong stresses and pauses where there should be none, combined with the strangely soft enunciation -- which, reportedly, made his speech all the more terrifying (and that probably was the reason he spoke that way).
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*** What's interesting, is that this almost exactly matches the way JosephStalin spoke Russian. While he was Georgian, heis accent was almost non-existent and showed only in those strange emphases, wrong stresses and pauses where there should be none, combined with the strangely soft enunciation -- which, reportedly, made his speech all the more terrifying (and that probably was the reason he spoke that way).
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* The Emps from ''UltimaVII''; passive voice seems to be what is always used by them.
--> "Your wish is to meet wisps? An idea how you can be helped by Trellek is had by me. Wisps are contacted by Trellek's whistling. A whistle for you can be made by him, perhaps. Talking with him again should be your next action."
** Also, the gargoyles. At one point in ''U7'', it is mentioned that they speak in "Gargish syntax" to preserve their cultural ties.
--> "To be named Horffe. To be the Captain of the guard. To serve and protect the people of Serpent's Hold."
--> "Your wish is to meet wisps? An idea how you can be helped by Trellek is had by me. Wisps are contacted by Trellek's whistling. A whistle for you can be made by him, perhaps. Talking with him again should be your next action."
** Also, the gargoyles. At one point in ''U7'', it is mentioned that they speak in "Gargish syntax" to preserve their cultural ties.
--> "To be named Horffe. To be the Captain of the guard. To serve and protect the people of Serpent's Hold."
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* ''TheTwilightZone'' (1985) episode "Wordplay" is based on this trope. A man has an unusual experience: The people around him are suddenly using words incorrectly — ''e.g.'', saying "dinosaur" when they mean "lunch". More and more words get replaced, until other people's speech becomes complete gibberish to him. He ends up having to re-learn the meaning of words out of a children's book.
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* ''TheTwilightZone'' (1985) episode "Wordplay" is based on this trope. A man has an unusual experience: The people around him are suddenly using words incorrectly — incorrectly, ''e.g.'', saying "dinosaur" when they mean "lunch". More and more words get replaced, until other people's speech becomes complete gibberish to him. He ends up having to re-learn the meaning of words out of a children's book.
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* Thorn of ''FinalFantasyIX'' uses inverted sentences, like Yoda (and usually says the same thing Zorn says, except Zorn doesn't invert them.)
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** It's actually a little bit more complex than that. He gets all the words and sounds exactly right but has these very strange tonal variations within words and sentences, as well as misplaced emphasis (but unlike [[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable EmPHAsis on the Wrong SylLAble]], he doesn't actually change the vowel sounds). Not to mention that he pauses for breath at seemingly random times, sometimes ''within a word'' and often within self-contained phrases. And some of those breaths are subtly raspy. All of this adds together to tell you that he is most definitely ''not'' human. [[EldritchAbomination Or from this universe]].