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'''Pronto:''' Me go Harvard. Me [[IncrediblyLamePun Boston brave.]]

->''"Friends wondering why Nopon talk so strange? Well, we take high ecclesiastical form of Late Modern Noponese and map grammatical patterns onto [[HumansByAnyOtherName Hom Hom]] language. This give us adorable yet expressive Nopon speech... Actually, me just made that up. Though you must admit, it pretty impressive theory."''

-->''I am be dangerous now''
-->''Not me hurt''
-->''When stairs fell down''
-->''Me pushed by you''
-->''Me hit head''
-->''Me nose broke''
-->''Soon you be dead''

* Also done by the attacking aliens of ''Pinball/{{Firepower}},'' coming this with MachineMonotone.

* Lin Bairon in Tajiri's SMASH and Wrestling New Classic promotions. She spoke English with a lot of confidence and enthusiasm, displaying excellent pronunciation, a decent vocabulary and terrible grammar.[[/folder]]

---> '''Mrs. Thundercloud''': Miss Brooks, she very pretty!

-->'''Pronto''' ''(Bob)'': Ug. Lone, that be completely impossible. You would be implicating me in crime, in which I can have no hand.
-->'''Lone''' ''(Ray)'': Huh? Is this Pronto speaking?
-->'''Pronto:''' Ug.
-->'''Lone:''' Where'd you get the education?
-->'''Pronto:''' Me go Harvard. Me [[IncrediblyLamePun Boston brave.]]

->''"Friends wondering why Nopon talk so strange? Well, we take high ecclesiastical form of Late Modern Noponese and map grammatical patterns onto Hom Hom language. This give us adorable yet expressive Nopon speech... Actually, me just made that up. Though you must admit, it pretty impressive theory."''

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There's actually a scientific term for this kind of speech pattern: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrammatism agrammatic speech]].

** Averted with the entire population of Khura'in in ''Spirit of Justice''. They all speak English rather fluently, despite being a foreign nation which still actively uses its own cultural language and writing system. This is partly explained by a heavy dependence on tourism, though that doesn't necessarily explain why ''everyone''is fluent.

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* ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'''s Forest Folk speak like this.
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* ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000'' Orks can use a bastardized version of Low Gothic (known as English in the millennium we live in) aside from their original language which is mostly guttural yells with a glyph writing system. Their grammar is likewise bastardized.

** Averted with the entire population of Khura'in in ''Spirit of Justice''. They all speak English rather fluently, despite being a foreign nation which still actively uses its own cultural language and writing system.

If the work is taking on a superior versus inferior viewpoint, the superior beings might use SpockSpeak or YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe to contrast the barbarism of the other group. The inferior race is often shown speaking pidgin English and omitting articles, auxiliary verbs, possessive pronouns, and sometimes prepositions. The speakers often refer to themselves in third person. It is quite similar to HulkSpeak, though even non-combatants can or will use it. In some cases, it is a form of AliensSpeakingEnglish, in which the creatures have their own language and [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue speak English as a very poorly learned secondary language]].

When a character or group needs to be portrayed as [[HollywoodNatives foreign, primitive, or inferior in intellect,]] or perhaps just childlike, yet still intelligible and able to communicate, the language of these characters is spoken as a grammatically abhorrent mess. Characters could be speaking a mutilated version of the language they learned from another culture, or a [[HulkSpeak butchered version]] of their own language, or simply a language so "primitive" it appears from an outside perspective to lack complexity. This trope is OlderThanPrint, going all the way back to [[Creator/GeoffreyChaucer Chaucer]].

This trope comes from two sources. First, English as a language has very little inflection, meaning words don't change their forms to cover case, tense, grammatical gender, etc very much if at all. Instead, English requires a lot of small auxiliary words to convey the same information which other languages do in much fewer but more complex words. At the same time, you don't ''need'' these auxiliary words to make a comprehensible sentence (hence the adage, "English is an easy language to speak badly.") This leads to the second source: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin pidgin languages,]] which are highly simplified languages used by groups without a common language to communicate. Pidgins are stripped down to the absolute bare minimum of grammar needed to get one's point across, to make them easier to learn; some common English idioms like "long time no see", "sorry, no go" or "no X, no Y" are presumed to have their origin in the Chinese-English pidgin that emerged when the United Kingdom started commercial relationships with China.[[note]]Due to modern Mandarin's pretty minimal grammar, some like "long time no see" (or "好久不见") are word-for-word translations of legitimate Chinese phrases anyway.[[/note]]

* Cookie Monster from ''Series/SesameStreet'' usually talks this way.

!!Other examples not included in the above:

When a character or group needs to be portrayed as [[HollywoodNatives foreign, primitive, or inferior in intellect,]] yet still intelligible and able to communicate, the language of these characters is spoken as a grammatically abhorrent mess. Characters could be speaking a mutilated version of the language they learned from another culture, or a [[HulkSpeak butchered version]] of their own language, or simply a language so "primitive" it appears from an outside perspective to lack complexity. This trope is OlderThanPrint, going all the way back to [[Creator/GeoffreyChaucer Chaucer]].

* Artur from ''Big Nate'', hailing from Belarus, speaks in this manner. All the girls at P.S. 38 find this adorable.

-->-- '''[[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Nopon Villager]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}''

* Warhammer 40,000 Orks can use a bastardized version of Low Gothic (known as English in the millennium we live in) aside from their original language which is mostly guttural yells with a glyph writing system. Their grammar is likewise bastardized.

This trope comes from two sources. First, English as a language has very little inflection, meaning words don't change their forms to cover case, tense, grammatical gender, etc very much if at all. Instead, English requires a lot of small auxiliary words to convey the same information which other languages do in much fewer but more complex words. At the same time, you don't ''need'' these auxiliary words to make a comprehensible sentence (hence the adage , "English is an easy language to speak badly.") This leads to the second source: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin pidgin languages,]] which are highly simplified languages used by groups without a common language to communicate. Pidgins are stripped down to the absolute bare minimum of grammar needed to get one's point across, to make them easier to learn; some common English idioms like "long time no see", "sorry, no go" or "no X, no Y" are presumed to have their origin in the Chinese-English pidgin that emerged when the United Kingdom started commercial relationships with China.[[note]]Due to modern Mandarin's pretty minimal grammar, some like "long time no see" (or "好久不见") are word-for-word translations of legitimate Chinese phrases anyway.[[/note]]

This trope comes from two sources. First, English as a language has very little inflection, meaning words don't change their forms to cover case, number, grammatical gender, etc. Instead, English requires a lot of small auxiliary words to convey the same information other languages could in much fewer but more complex words. At the same time, you don't ''need'' these auxiliary words to make a comprehensible sentence (hence the adage , "English is an easy language to speak badly.") This leads to the second source: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin pidgin languages,]] which are highly simplified languages used by groups without a common language to communicate. Pidgins are stripped down to the absolute bare minimum of grammar needed to get one's point across, to make them easier to learn; some common English idioms like "long time no see", "sorry, no go" or "no X, no Y" are presumed to have their origin in the Chinese-English pidgin that emerged when the United Kingdom started commercial relationships with China.[[note]]Due to modern Mandarin's pretty minimal grammar, some like "long time no see" (or "好久不见") are word-for-word translations of legitimate Chinese phrases anyway.[[/note]]