History Main / TerseTalker

--> "Stood in firelight sweltering. Blood spreading on chest like map of violent new continent."

--> "Introduces, in this paragraph, the device of sentence fragments. A sentence fragment. Another. Good device. Will be used more later."

-->'''Warden''': Tell me about the qunari.\\
'''Sten''': No.

---> '''Nox''': I see among us men of the land, men of the earth.\\
'''Pullman''': Mhm.\\
'''Olson''': Yep.\\
'''Mort''': ...\\
'''Nox''': You have no doubt been called men of few words, and perhaps you have even been chided for this.\\
'''Nox''': However, a tree does not speak, yet it shares its wisdom with us through its roots and trunk and branches--and the many circles of its trunk.\\
'''Pullman''': Mhm.\\
'''Olson''': Yep.\\
'''Mort''': ...

--> '''Vaarsuvius:''' [[KillItWithFire BURN]], you insufferably terse dullard!

-->'''Freakazoid''': Can't... see! Sun... in... eyes! Must... talk... like... this!

-->'''Optimus Prime''': Badly damaged. Losing energy rapidly. Power relays fused. Mobility limited. Part replacement essential.

--->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Unable... to continue... describing... symptoms... *collapses*

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': Surprisingly to modern audiences, the Hulk originally talked like this prior to the rising popularity of the Savage Hulk personality, speaking perfectly legible English but very gruffly. In most of his more intelligent personas, particularly the Green Scar, he often speaks like this.

* Rammus of ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' responds to any and all orders from his summoner (you, the player) with stuff like "Yup" and "Okay." In fact, Rammus has a whopping six lines, only two of which make it as far as two syllables.

* The crux of ''Manga/AhAndMmAreAllSheSays''. Tanaka is the roommate and editor for a young hentai artist named Toda who is an ElectiveMute that usually speaks in moans rather than complete sentences due to being "slow at arranging her thoughts." Despite this, Tanaka can fully comprehend all of Toda's odd vocalizations and is able to serve as translator for rest of her colleagues.

* Rorschach from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is always like this when talking, but his journal and internal monologue switches between this and [[PurpleProse outbreaks of fluency]]. Still skips articles and pronouns in journal. This seems to emulate shorthand writing, a preferred method of writing in journals or reports when one wants to quickly take note of something, focusing on writing as little as possible while still being able to maintain a cohesive narrative. The overall point of this style of writing is putting practicality before presentablity, which seems to be Rorschach's mantra on how he lives out his day-to-day life in general.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': The speech patterns of San and Thor tend to slip into this this at times when they're agitated, distressed or in San's case just excited.

* Ryuuko in chapter three of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11449951/3/Through-Thick-and-Thin Through Thick and Thin,]]'' when she converses with Nonon, Uzu, Gamagoori and Houka, mostly answering in simple sentences, however, she is not one otherwise. Semi justified as she was tired at the time.

* Mannie, narrator of ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'', talks like this, skipping short pronouns (such as "it") and articles (such as "the") when not strictly necessary to clarity. Makes him sound vaguely Russian, and is not common in Luna, but experience as computer programmer has gotten him into habit of dropping extraneous 'null terms', as he sees them, from vocabulary.

* The Batter from ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' tends to give one or two word answers to things.
* Strix from ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' is a quiet ColdSniper who only speak when he has to. When he does speak, he usually doesn't use more than four words.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Worf tends to speak in extremely short sentences. Maybe six words at most. No more. Especially given that he HatesSmallTalk. For example, in "The Survivors":

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': The Whisperers use this as part of their lifestyle of living among Walker herds. They speak to each other in low whispers and keep their sentences as short as possible when guiding groups of walkers.

* Abathur from ''VideoGame/StarcraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm'', and also a geneticist, speaks like this quite a bit.