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== Comics ==

* ''Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless'' gives insulting people in a foreign language they can't understand as an example of rude behavior (though not as rude as saying [[Pig Latin|"ucket-bay ead-hay"]]):

'''Foreign Speaker #2:''' Gne! }}

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', completing the quests leading up to the [[Wham! Episode|Battle of the Wrathgate]] leads to this exchange. A bug, however, temporarily allowed players to understand the spoilered Draconic part, which alluded to events that were only explicitly revealed in the Fall of the Lich King patch.

'''Alexstrasza''': (to you) (Player), come to me. }}

 

* Invoked in an episode of ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'', where each little sub-group invented their own language and only let a few people in on it. Arthur & Buster, Francine & Muffy, etc. Eventually they were so separated that nobody could understand anybody else - except George, who spoke in English because he hadn't been invited into anybody else's private little club.

* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Bart and Lisa speak in Pig-latin so Marge could not understand them. Of course, she does.

'''Bart and Lisa''': [in Pig Latin] Crap. }}