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*** Well, some Cajun people speaks a dialect called "Cajun French", which is basically french words with english grammar (and outdated French words too, since it split from french a few centuries ago). It's no wonder than a cajun guy like Gambit ended here with this background, and is, for once, a totally [[Justified Trope]]

** According to legend, Austrians who saw the movie would exclaim something like "Oh my god! We don't actually sound like that... Do we?"

* The modern Vladek Spiegelman in ''[[Maus]]'' speaks in the "foreign grammar, English vocabulary" variant, making this [[Truth in Television]] unless the author, his son, was using artistic license.

* In ''[[Strontium Dog]]'', the presumably Norwegian Wulf uses ''der'' for ''the'' ([[Did Not Do the Research|though in Norwegian 'the' is a suffix to the noun, not a standalone word before it]]), and ''ja'' for ''yes''. His sentence structure also varies between sensible and Yoda-like.

 

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