Tongue-Twister: Difference between revisions

Two tropers tarried to talk "tongue-twister" topic's techniques. Tropers' tongues twisted till tropers' tangled tongues tied totally taut. Talking troubles taught tropers twain to tackle tortuous tongue-twisters tentatively.

 

 

These sayings occur both as works in themselves, and as features of larger works. Often, when a tongue twister is employed within a broader work, it's as a comedic element focusing on just how hard it is to say the phrase properly. Both in [[Real Life]] and in fiction, they can be used to practice enunciation in speech therapy and oratory training.

 

A sister trope of [[Cannot Spit It Out]].

 

* William Poundstone declared this to be the most challenging tongue-twister in the English language:

{{quote|The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.}}

** A Proper Copper Coffee Pot.

*** This one inspired a tongue-tangling song by the folk band Trout Fishing In America.

** Cecily thought Sicily less thistly than Thessaly.

** Irish wristwatch.

{{quote|One hen

Two ducks

[[Serial Escalation|Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep who haul stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time]] }}

 

* [[Dr. Seuss]]' ''Fox In Socks'' is made up of examples of this trope.

* Practically everything that comes out of V's mouth in ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' qualifies. One wonders how many takes it must've taken to produce his dialogue for the film...

'''Marcia:''' Cindy, would you mind practicing somewhere else? Arithmetic is kind of hard.

'''Cindy:''' So are S's. }}

* 2d!Doofenshmirtz in ''[[Phineas and Ferb]] Across The Second Dimension'':

{{quote|''2D!Doof:'' Boy borg. Try saying that five times fast. Boyborg, Boyborg, Boyborg, Boyborg, Boyborg...I guess maybe [[Subverted Trope|it's not that hard to say]].}}

* ''The Pheasant Plucking Song''

** Fred Colon, of the [[Discworld]] City Watch novels, was once in a military regiment called the Pheasant Pluckers. In reminiscing, he recalls how the regimental song was a bit difficult to sing correctly.

* In episode 14 of ''[[Bakemonogatari]]'', Koyomi Araragi deals with [[Catgirl|Black Hanekawa]] ({{spoiler|Tsubasa Hanekawa possessed by a ''male'' bakeneko she refers to as a "meddlesome cat"}}), whose appearance, demeanor, and actions get a rise out of [[Chivalrous Pervert|Araragi]]. He then asks her to repeat, "Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?" Not only does she repeat the tongue twister flawlessly, but she finds the time to throw in her cat-based [[Verbal Tic]] as well. [[Cuteness Proximity|Araragi is quite impressed.]]

{{quote|'''Black Hanekawa:''' "Can mew imyagine an imyaginyary mewnyagerie mewnyager imyagining mewnyaging an imyaginyary mewnyagerie?"}}

{{quote|'''Brain:''' You must slit the sixth sick sheet slitter's son's sheet, secure it next to the toy boat from the Hackensack Socko Kicky-Sack Sack Kickers' picnic in Secaucus, stretch it past the sack pickers' station and the sock plucker's chute, and pick a sack, pluck a sock, and flick the plug, so I can put the pea in the plucked sock with the picked sack for ballast and bounce it off the rubber baby buggy bumper, into the Parker Packard purple pewter pressure pump.}}

* In an early episode of ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]'', the normally [[Comically Serious]] Velma challenges her friends to say, "Something's thumping," three times fast. Shaggy doesn't even want to say it once.

 

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