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* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' had Strong Bad begin answering one of his emails, "Again with the 'Dear Strong Bad'..."
* Strip 100 of ''[[Questionable Content]]'' had Marten saying "Please don't make with the killing!" in response to seeing Faye topless.
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has several [[Common Tongue]]s, including Galstandard Peroxide, mostly spoken by water-dwelling species. Recognizing sophonts used to it is easy - by never uttering a verb if there's a present participle is doing the same job when they start speaking [[Translation Convention|Galstandard West]]. Such as the Aqueousci, humans who grew up underwater on Celeschuul and [
** The Neo-Oafa were talking with strong Peroxide accent early on (presumably the Prabstdi who have re-created them decided the blimp-people must have more in common with aquatic species). Maiamumla stops doing it after being "[[Hive Mind|melded]]" with sophont of another species and memory of an ancient Oafa; Yaeyoefui (ancient Oafa who was given Galstandard West knowledge copied from a neoafan brain) doesn't have such an accent. [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-03-28 Occasionally] this quirk [[That Came Out Wrong|amusingly distorted some nuances]].
{{quote|'''Karl Tagon''': That sounds more ominous than it is.
'''Kaff Tagon''': I know my Peroxide accents, dad... }}
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