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* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' and ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', there are cultures that lived thousands of years before English was born that speak it flawlessly.
** SG-1 began with people on other planets speaking different languages, mostly based on old Earth cultures. By the second episode they realized it wouldn't work with only one main character (Jackson) able to speak to the people, so it was changed.
* ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'' Zigzags this. Jeannie only speaks Arabic when she first meets Tony in the pilot (having been cooped up in her bottle for two-thousand years) and is only able to speak English because he makes a wish to understand her, which she quickly grants. Still, this doesn't explain how other genies in the series like the Blue Djinn and Jeannie's sister can speak English.
* In ''[[Sanctuary]]'' Will mentions this as evidence of why three woman claiming to have awoken from hundreds of years of sleep have to be delusional - they all speak perfect English. {{spoiler|As it turns out they simply used their tremendous psychic powers to learn modern English instantly.}} In the first episodes Helen and John's mode of speech is a clue as to their shared origin. Their English is perfectly comprehensible, but slightly archaic and formalized. They and Tesla have all exhibited some distaste for modern conventions of the language.
** Good luck picking up on the fact that Tesla is Serbian, given his near-total lack of an appropriate accent even in flashbacks. The only time this is ever mentioned is when the British government requests they stop {{spoiler|Adam}} and do it for their country, prompting Tesla to mention that he's not British.
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