Language Tropes
Tropes specifically having to do with use of language, including translations.
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</sidebarmenu>- AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle
- Acronym Confusion
- Acronym and Abbreviation Overload
- Aliens Speaking English
- The All-Concealing "I"
- All Lowercase Letters
- Altum Videtur
- Ambiguous Syntax
- Animal Talk
- Antiquated Linguistics
- Armchair Psychology
- Artistic License Linguistics
- Asian Speekee Engrish
- As Long As It Sounds Foreign
- Atomic F Bomb
- Author Vocabulary Calendar
- Baby Language
- Baby Talk
- Bilingual Backfire
- Bilingual Bonus
- Bilingual Dialogue
- Bite the Wax Tadpole
- Black Speech
- Blind Idiot Translation
- Buffy Speak
- Busman's Vocabulary
- By "No" I Mean "Yes"
- Call a Human A Meatbag
- Call a Rabbit A Smeerp
- Call a Smeerp A Rabbit
- Canis Latinicus
- Chinese Dialects and Accents
- Classical Tongue
- Cluster F Bomb
- Common Tongue
- Con Lang
- Conveniently Precise Translation
- Country Matters
- Curse of the Ancients
- Cut His Heart Out With a Spoon
- Cypher Language
- Deadly Euphemism
- Delusions of Eloquence
- Did Not Do the Bloody Research
- Dissimile
- Don't Call Me "Sir"!
- Either World Domination or Something About Bananas
- "El Niño" Is Spanish for "The Nino"
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome
- Eloquent in My Native Tongue
- El Spanish-O
- Entendre Failure
- Esperanto the Universal Language
- Eternal English
- Everythings Cuter With Lucky Charms
- Everyone Gets Their Turn
- Everything Sounds Sexier in French
- Fan Sub
- Fang Thpeak
- Fantastic Measurement System
- Fantastic Slurs
- Fan Translation
- Faux Fluency
- Fictionary
- Flowery Elizabethan English
- Flowery Insults
- Fonts
- Foreign Cuss Word
- Foreigners Write Backwards
- Foreign Language Tirade
- Foreign Looking Font
- From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
- Fun With Acronyms
- Fun With Foreign Languages
- Fun With Palindromes
- Fun With Subtitles
- Future Slang
- Gender Vocabulary Slip
- German Language
- Get Thee to A Nunnery
- Good Bad Translation
- Gosh Dang It to Heck
- Gratuitous Foreign Language
- Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter
- Green Is Blue
- Hash House Lingo
- Have a Gay Old Time
- Hiding Behind the Language Barrier
- Hold Your Hippogriffs
- Hollywood Spelling
- How Do I Used Tense
- How Do You Say...?
- Hulk Speak
- Hurricane of Puns
- I Do Not Speak Nonverbal
- I Just Like Saying the Word
- Indo-European Alien Language
- In My Language, That Sounds Like...
- Incredibly Lame Pun
- Informed Obscenity
- Inherently Funny Words
- Intentional Engrish for Funny
- Intentionally Awkward Title
- International Pop Song English
- In the Local Tongue
- It Is Dehumanizing
- It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY
- Japanese Language
- Japanese Ranguage
- Jive Turkey
- Koan
- Korean Honorifics
- Language Drift
- Language Equals Thought
- Language of Magic
- Language of Truth
- Last-Second Word Swap
- Least Rhymable Word
- Leet Lingo
- Left Field Description
- Like Is, Like, a Comma
- Lucky Translation
- Magical Foreign Words
- Mamet Speak
- Microts
- Mixed Metaphor
- Metaphorgotten
- Mondegreen
- Multiple Reference Pun
- My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
- Narrative Profanity Filter
- Neologism
- Never Say Die
- No Longer With Us
- Non Indicative Name
- No Pronunciation Guide
- Nu Speling
- Obligatory Corporate Initialism
- Obligatory Swearing
- Oh My Gods
- Omniglot
- Once For Yes, Twice For No
- One Two Three Four Go
- Orphaned Etymology
- Pardon My Klingon
- Person As Verb
- Phantasy Spelling
- Pig Latin
- Pluralses
- Point of View
- Poirot Speak
- Popular Saying, But...
- Portmanteau
- Precision F Strike
- Prepositions Are Not to End Sentences With
- Pretentious Latin Motto
- The Problem With Pen Island
- Prophecies Rhyme All the Time
- Psmith Psyndrome
- Punctuation Shaker
- The Queen's Latin
- Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic
- Recursive Translation
- Re Lex
- Romantic Hyperbole
- Rouge Angles of Satin
- Royal We
- Sacred Language
- Scanlation
- Scare Quotes
- Separated By a Common Language
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
- Shoehorned First Letter
- Smart People Know Latin
- Son of an Ape
- Sophisticated As Hell
- Spell My Name With an S
- Spell My Name With a The
- Sssssnaketalk
- Speaking, Like, Totally Teen
- Speaking Simlish
- Spock Speak
- Spoonerism
- Starfish Language
- Stealth Pun
- Strange Syntax Speaker
- Stutter Stop
- Suddenly Bilingual
- Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish
- Surprisingly Good Foreign Language
- Switch to English
- T Word Euphemism
- Tactful Translation
- Talking Is a Free Action
- Talk Like a Pirate
- Terse Talker
- That Sounds Familiar
- They Call Me Mister Tibbs
- Tongue-Twister
- Totally Radical
- Translation Correction
- Translation Convention
- Translation Matchmaking
- Translation Style Choices
- Translate the Loanwords, Too
- Translation With an Agenda
- Translation Yes
- Translator Microbes
- Trope Names From Other Languages
- Two of Your Earth Minutes
- Tyop On the Cover
- Unusual Dysphemism
- Unusual Euphemism
- Verbal Tic
- Verbal Ticked
- Wanton Cruelty to The Common Comma
- Weapons Grade Vocabulary
- What Song Was This Again?
- When Is Purple?
- Wingdinglish
- Woolseyism
- Word Salad Philosophy
- A Worldwide Punomenon
- Writing Lines
- Xtreme Kool Letterz
- Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
- Yiddish As a Second Language
- You Are the Translated Foreign Word
- You Keep Using That Word
- You Know the One
- You No Take Candle