Busman's Vocabulary: Difference between revisions

 

Contrast with [[Spy Speak]].

 

* Sanji of ''[[One Piece]]'' frequently uses allusions to food when he's [[Calling Your Attacks|calling his attacks]]. This is more obvious in the English dub, but the Japanese has a few food phrases too.

** In the Viz translation of the manga, people tend to use pirate slang like "swabbie" fairly often.

* Dr. Minoru Kamiya has a penchant for this in [[Yu Yu Hakusho]] - In English, he says "Pronounced dead!" when attacking Yusuke from behind. In Portuguese, during the fight with Yusuke, he says "Não vou usar nenhum instrumento para te fazer uma autópsia!" - In English, "I will use no instruments to dissect you!".

 

* ''[[Deadpool]]'' supporting character Fenway managed to work a baseball metaphor into practically every sentence he spoke.

* ''[[Batman]]'' villains the Trigger Twins talk almost exclusively like characters from a [[The Western|Western]] movie.

 

* This is [[Older Than Radio]], as it dates back at least to Dickens' character, Mr. Lilyvick, in ''Nicholas Nickleby'', a water-rate collector who uses references to pipes, taps etc. in his "normal" conversation.

* Siuan Sanche in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' grew up a fisherwoman before becoming Aes Sedai, so she always uses fishing jargon and metaphors.

* In ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', we're told that Commander Vimes studies geography as though it were a crime scene ("Would you recognise that glacier if you saw it again?") Mostly though, he talks to people as though he was conducting an investigation because he [[Busman's Holiday|always is]].

 

* Near the end of an episode of ''[[The Sopranos]]'', Tony tells a guy that a job might involve "getting messy. Real wet work." The FBI agents listening prick up their ears, only to realize a few seconds later he's asking someone to fix his burst water heater.

* In an episode of ''[[The Wire]]'', a gangbanger talks on the phone about "capping his dawg's ass". The police bring him in on murder charges, only to realize that he was talking about putting down an actual dog.

* In the first episode of ''[[The Troop]]'', a student's vocational test suggested he'd become an accountant. The student used accounting terms while voicing his objections to this.

 

* Practically every example in [[Wrestling Doesn't Pay]] uses this.

 

* Nate Logan from the ''[[SSX]]'' series, a cornfed ranch hand from Colorado, often says things like "Durn horse threw a shoe!" after a wipeout.

 

* Prior to his [[Flanderization]] into creepiness incarnate, Coach Z from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' would overuse sports metaphors to the point that other characters started calling him out on it. From [http://www.homestarrunner.com/xmas2001.html "The Best Decemberween Ever"]:

{{quote|'''Coach Z:''' Well, Homestar, I'll tell ya. Buying a Decemberween present for Strong Bad is like a great sports play.

'''Bubs:''' And I like to dance! }}

 

 

* The Mafia men of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' embody this trope. Fat Tony went so far as to say his wife was "whacked by natural causes". There was also a subversion in the same episode, as Tony asked Legs to "hot-sync" his PalmPilot, and Legs thought he meant to shoot it.

{{quote|'''Legs:''' I thought you meant *gcck* hot-sync it. You know how it is with us, everything means kill.}}

* Tom Tucker in ''[[Family Guy]]'' still speaks like a news reporter even while not reporting the news.

 

* One of the main reasons [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life]].

** And it's (probably) ''not even your job''…

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Language Tropes]]

[[Category:Tropes on a Bus]]