Aliens Speaking English/Quotes

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Youta: Hey, why are you speaking Japanese?
Rūmi: Japanese? What’s that? Are you talking about Caesarian?
Rūmi: Wait, why are you speaking Caesarian?
Youta:

Homer: How is it that you speak English?
Alien: Actually, we're speaking Rigellian. By coincidence, our languages are exactly the same.

To make things easier, everyone speaks English.
—A short story about humans meeting aliens. In Portuguese.

Graeme: How come I can understand you? Are you using some neural language router?
Paul: Actually, I'm speaking English you fucking idiot!

Paul

Farnsworth: Our only hope is to communicate with the aliens, and show them our peaceful intentions.
Bender: Perhaps they speak perfect English... as do we.
Farnsworth: We can't take that chance! We'll need my universal auto-translator!

Futurama, "Reincarnation"
The humans are having a dick-waving competition with various aliens that all speak perfect English, in various American dialects.
Yahtzee reviewing Mass Effect

Letter: Dear Stargate SG-1, why do all the aliens speak English?
Christopher Judge: Oh Crap, they found out about that.

Syfy Stargate SG-1 special

Chel: Hmm... How do you speak English so well?
Lexx: I'm not speaking English. You're speaking Galactic Standard.

Alien Dice, in a rare Inversion