Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Difference between revisions

* [[Dominic Deegan|Donovan "Little Pink Man in Pink" Deegan]] is only capable of speaking Orcish in the sense that he seems to have a rather large vocabulary. He just doesn't know what those words mean. When speaking his native Callanian (The "English" of the world) he is the world's most renowned poet and bard. It turns out that {{spoiler|he speaks Orkish perfectly and acts otherwise because [[Rule of Funny|he thinks it's funny.]]}}

* In ''[[The Cobra Days]]'', [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|The Sorrow]] is only just learning English. Occasionally when they're having trouble understanding him, one of the other Russian-speaking members of the Cobra Unit will tell him to switch to Russian, his native tongue.

* Done both ways in [[Gai-Gin]]. The USA native Gin's Japanese starts out on [[You No Take Candle]] levels ("Aah ... eat tomato, and again you see tomato I ate. No wanna eat tomato?") and improves drastically over the course of the strip, though it gets worse again when she's emotional. Her Japanese boyfriend Pyon is slightly ditzy but perfectly intelligent, going into [[Badass Bookworm]] levels near the end when he {{spoiler|researches frantically for a way to stop Gin being deported}}, but his English is hopeless: "Hi Daddy! Me name Pyon-Pyon!"

* In [[The Law of Purple]], Thud is a native of a jungle where people speak a different language than the rest of the planet. At one point he even informs someone that he's not stupid, he just has a thick accent.