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There's actually a scientific word for this kind of speech pattern: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrammatism agrammatic speech]]. [[IThoughtItMeant Not the same]] as ungrammatical, but [[NoExceptYes one of the worse kinds]].

* [[JonathanCoulton Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write god damned login page himself.]]

This trope comes from two sources. First, English is a highly analytic language with little in the way of inflection (altering the spelling/pronunciation of various words to imply things such as case, number, tense, grammatical gender, etc.), so it requires a lot of words and many small auxillary particles to convey the same information some languages could in much fewer words. For instance, "no take candle!" would be a perfectly legitimate sentence in Latin (as would "no candle take!"). The second comes from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_language pidgin languages]], 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.

* From the ''Gensokyo20XX'' series, we have this initially with an age-regressed Reimu in a combination of HulkSpeak, which is justified seeing as she age-regressed to formative years and was imprisoned being denied virtually no contact, aside from being injected with needles and apparently being brain-washed, thus she had to relearn her language skills, communicating more on the level that rehabilitated WildChild might. The same also applied to Maribel and Renko, although with a more expanded vocabulary. This is mostly the case with Youmu, in 20XXV, who combines this, HulkSpeak, and TerseTalker, if her "Muhs" are translated, although this played straight, when she says, "Fuck you ass, Youmu do what want!"

* From the ''Gensokyo20XX'' series, we have this initially with an age-regressed Reimu in a combination of HulkSpeech, which is justified seeing as she age-regressed to formative years and was imprisoned being denied virtually no contact, aside from being injected with needles and apparently being brain-washed, thus she had to relearn her language skills, communicating more on the level that rehabilitated WildChild might. The same also applied to Maribel and Renko, although with a more expanded vocabulary. This is mostly the case with Youmu, in 20XXV, who combines this, HulkSpeech, and TerseTalker, if her "Muhs" are translated, although this played straight, when she says, "Fuck you ass, Youmu do what want!"

* This is played straight ''within'' the ''BattleTech'' universe. The Clans, in their fanatical devotion to restoring the ancient Star League, speak strictly in Star League Standard English (with some new terminology and shorthand as needed to reflect their unique culture, but ''never'' contractions). Conversely, they consider the mishmashing of languages used by the Successor States and the mediocre quality of their English as further proof of their descent into barbarism.

* Tabletop RPG ''Land of Og'', and its more playable successor ''Og: Unearthed Edition'', limits its caveman characters to only a few words while speaking in character. Each character has a different set of words they can use, such as "You", "Rock", "Stick", "Thing", "Hairy", "Bang", "Go", and "Verisimilitude".

* Parodied in a 1949 [[BobAndRay Bob & Ray]] skit featuring Pronto, sidekick to the Lone Agent:

* YouNoTakeCandle/{{Live-Action TV}}

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* In Williams' ''Pinball/{{Taxi}}'' pinball game, "Gorbie" (MikhailGorbachev) talks like this.

* ''The Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show''. Explains itself, really.

When a character or group needs to be portrayed as foreign, primitive, or inferior in intellect, yet still able to communicate and is intelligible, 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 Chaucer.

* "Boris" (a caricature of Boris Yelsin) does the same thin in ''Pinball/{{Diner}}''.

* In Williams' ''Pinball/{{Taxi}}'' pinball game, "Gorby" (MikhailGorbachev) talks like this.

-->-- '''[[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Nopon Villager]]''', ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles''