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Contrast MotorMouth, BeigeProse.

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Contrast MotorMouth, compare BeigeProse.
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-->'''[[TransformersAnimated Ginormous, homage-tastically recolored virtual Soundwave]]''': ESCAPE IS IMPOSSIBLE. AUTOBOTS INFERIOR, SOUNDWAVE SUPERIOR.
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* Many accounts of messages sent by military commanders engaged in combat, sometimes due to needing to keep it brief so they could focus on the fighting, and sometimes because the nature of how the messages were sent (telegraph, flag signals, etc.) tended to favor brief messages.
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->'''Warden''': Tell me about the qunari.
->'''Sten''': No.

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

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* Sten in ''DragonAge''.
->'''Warden''': Tell me about the qunari.
->'''Sten''': No.
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* RealLife: Former Russian finance minister turned newspaper columnist A.Lifshits is known (in Russia) for his frequent use of this in speeches and articles. It looks pretty much like this:

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* RealLife: Former Russian finance minister turned newspaper columnist A. Lifshits is known (in Russia) for his frequent use of this in speeches and articles. It looks pretty much like this:
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* {{IT-HE Software}} does this with [[ArxFatalis Am-Shaegar's]] [[http://it-he.org/arx_diry.htm diary]].
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* Professor Mordin Solus of ''MassEffect2'' paradoxically combines this with MotorMouth, in contrast to the... er... contrast listed in this trope's definition.

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* Professor Mordin Solus of ''MassEffect2'' paradoxically combines this with MotorMouth, in contrast to the... er... contrast listed in this trope's definition.''MassEffect2''. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Except when he sings]].
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* In ''FalloutNewVegas'', one of the Courier's companions, Boone, will alternate between this method of speech and speaking in complete sentences. These also tie in to the two personalities he displays in the course of conversations with him--the classic ColdSniper and a more emotional, generally decent, but [[IronWoobie heavily traumatized man who just happens to be one of the most lethal people in the Mojave]].
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* Professor Mordin Solus of ''MassEffect 2'' paradoxically combines this with MotorMouth, in contrast to the... er... contrast listed in this trope's definition.

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* Professor Mordin Solus of ''MassEffect 2'' ''MassEffect2'' paradoxically combines this with MotorMouth, in contrast to the... er... contrast listed in this trope's definition.




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--> '''Vaarsuvius:''' [[KillItWithFire BURN]], you insufferably terse dullard!
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** Omega tends to do this in many incarnations.

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** Omega tends to do this in many incarnations. As does Soundwave.
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* Ulath in [[TheElenium the Sparhawk series]]. Often will sum up a complex idea with one word and let others figure it out.
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* In ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', the Question, Rorschach's reverse-double-{{Expy}}, does this when he's figuring out the conspiracy. "Not alternate universe. Time loop!"

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* In ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', the Question, Rorschach's reverse-double-{{Expy}}, does this when he's figuring out the conspiracy. conspiracy and hadn't slept in days. "Not [[AnotherDimension alternate universe. universe.]] [[BadFuture Time loop!"loop!]]"

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* Rorschach from ''{{Watchmen}}''. Actually, only in his speech. His journal and internal monologue switches between this and [[PurpleProse outbreaks of fluency]].

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* Rorschach from ''{{Watchmen}}''. Actually, only in ''{{Watchmen}}'' is always like this when talking, but his speech. His journal and internal monologue switches between this and [[PurpleProse outbreaks of fluency]].fluency]]. Still skips articles and pronouns in journal.



** Still skips articles and pronouns in journal.
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** A trope which is parodied by TheSimpsons.
-->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Unable... To continue... Describing... Symptoms... *collapses*
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* Zz'dtri from ''OrderOfTheStick'', EvilCounterpart to [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Vaarsuvius]], never speaks in complete sentences.
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* FinalFantasyVIII: FUJIN!
** Yeah, she likes to speak entirely in bursts of single, shouted words, ya know?
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** Omega tends to do this in many incarnations.
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* Agent Superball from the Telltale ''SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' games does it all the time.
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* Mac in ''TheDresdenFiles'' hoards words. he almost never speaks in complete sentences, usually limiting his communication to single words or phrases. In ''Changes'', [[spoiler: when Harry explains that his daughter has been kidnapped]], the event is so shocking that [[spoiler: Mac actually speaks an entire paragraph.]]
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* In the original French and Matthew Ward's popular English translation (but ''not'' [[{{Macekre}} Stuart Gilbert's translation]], the first and for many years only in English), the narrator of ''TheStranger'' talks like this.

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* In the original French and Matthew Ward's popular English translation (but ''not'' [[{{Macekre}} Stuart Gilbert's translation]], the first and for many years only in English), translation, the narrator of ''TheStranger'' talks like this.
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* [[TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader Eustace Scrubb]] writes like this in his journal entries.
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* Dee Vasquez in the first "Ace Attorney" speaks almost exclusively in short sentences. This troper found it difficult to get any information from her in the cross-examination because of this.

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* Dee Vasquez in the first "Ace Attorney" {{Ace Attorney}} speaks almost exclusively in short sentences. This troper found it difficult to get any information from her in the cross-examination because of this.
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* Dee Vasquez in the first "Ace Attorney" speaks almost exclusively in short sentences. This troper found it difficult to get any information from her in the cross-examination because of this.
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* Oz on ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Witness this exchange from "The Zeppo":
-->'''Xander:''' What is it? How do you get it? Who doesn't have it, and who decides who doesn't have it? What is the essence of 'cool'?
-->'''Oz:''' Not sure.
-->'''Xander:''' I mean, you yourself, Oz, are considered more or less 'cool'. Why is that?
-->'''Oz:''' Am I?
-->'''Xander:''' Is it about the talking? You know, the-the way you tend to express yourself in short, non-committal phrases?
-->'''Oz:''' Could be.

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Contrast MotorMouth.

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Contrast MotorMouth.
MotorMouth, BeigeProse.



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* Professor Mordin Solus of ''MassEffect 2'' paradoxically combines this with MotorMouth, in contrast to the...er... contrast listed in this trope's definition.

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* Professor Mordin Solus of ''MassEffect 2'' paradoxically combines this with MotorMouth, in contrast to the... er... contrast listed in this trope's definition.

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Character talks in shorthand rather than complete sentences. Often due to keeping journal. Serves to make character more distinctive or memorable, but annoying to some people. Prone to ThisIsSparta.

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Character talks in shorthand rather than complete sentences. Often due to keeping journal. Serves to make character more distinctive or memorable, but annoying distinctive/memorable. Annoying to some people.some. Prone to ThisIsSparta.
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* The narration of "[[ThisIsTheTitleOfThisStory This Is The Title Of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times In The Story Itself]]" by David Moser slips into this periodically ("Introduces, in this paragraph, the device of sentence fragments. A sentence fragment. Another. Good device. Will be used more later.")

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* The narration of "[[ThisIsTheTitleOfThisStory This Is The Title Of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times In The Story Itself]]" by David Moser slips into this periodically ("Introduces, periodically:
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in this paragraph, the device of sentence fragments. A sentence fragment. Another. Good device. Will be used more later.")
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* The narration of "[[ThisIsTheTitleOfThisStory This Is The Title Of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times In The Story Itself]]" by David Moser slips into this periodically ("Introduces, in this paragraph, the device of sentence fragments. A sentence fragment. Another. Good device. Will be used more later.")



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* The narration of [[http://consc.net/misc/moser.html "This Is The Title Of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times In The Story Itself"]] by David Moser slips into this periodically ("Introduces, in this paragraph, the device of sentence fragments. A sentence fragment. Another. Good device. Will be used more later.")

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