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Chariset
Since: Jan, 2001

In comic books, there are some situations where we can see aliens or foreign characters talking among themselves, with no English speaking characters around. In old works, Aliens Speaking English was enough: all characters from everywhere talk in English, and that's it. More modern comic books are aware of the trope and try to avoid it: the texts are written in English because the reader has to understand what's written there (unless it's Black Speech), but the text follows some convention that points that the characters are actually talking in another language, and the text in English is just for the reader's convenience. For example, the texts in foreign language may be tagged as <foreign text> or <<foreign text>> (for example, here
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