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subject-verb agreement, when?
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Marvel Universe]]: Hepzibah of the ''[[Starjammers]]'' comes from a race of skunk-like humanoids who
* In [[Alan Moore]]'s run on ''[[Swamp Thing]]'', Ranndians spoke in their own alphabet. He had a few pages of illegible conversations.
* [[Alan Moore]] wrote a story for [[The DCU]] in which a [[Green Lantern]] has trouble communicating with a blind alien in a lightless region of space. The ring's [[Translator Microbes]] can't come up with equivalents for "green," "lantern," or about half of the other words in the Green Lanterns' oath. He got a unique [[Badass Creed]] that embodies concepts he can understand:
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* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'':
** Back in the day, the original game actually had alignment languages "wherein people of the same alignment could communicate through insinuations and intimations that only really make sense between those of like-minded affiliation with an aspect of a universal standard of ethic and morality". Meaning a lawful person could speak Lawful, a chaotic person could speak Chaotic, and so on. And if your alignment changed you forgot how to speak it, but could now speak the language of your new alignment. [[Flat What|What]].
** Would the Dabus from the ''[[Planescape]]'' setting count, too? A language requiring vision to understand because they speak in rhebus puzzles (presumably a visual representation of Common) that appear over their heads seems like it would qualify.
*** The phirblahs of the Ethereal Plane are a race similar to the dabus - possibly even related to them - with a similar language; when they "speak", their words appear as script in the air around them in the language of the intended recipient. Unfortunately, that means only literate beings can understand them.
** A few monstrous races have been described as having a Starfish Language, as with will-o-wisps' communicating by making their glowing bodies emit patterns of different-colored light flashes.
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