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{{quote|'''Alexa''': You're twins.
'''Ian''': What? No! Really?
'''Jeremy''': Mum should have told us. I feel cheated!
'''Ian''': Duped!
'''Jeremy''': Hoodwinked!
'''Alexa''': They think they're charming.
'''Liana''': Rakish.
'''Alexa''': Roguish.
|''[[Barbie and the Diamond Castle]]''}}
A [[Twin Tropes|Twin Trope]]. The tendency of twins to [[Witty Banter|banter]] with each other. This includes [[Finishing Each Other's Sentences
This can also be done by other multiple siblings, or even [[Those Two Guys]] as long as they know each other well enough.
[[Truth in Television]], especially with twins of the same gender, as sharing one room and being in the same grade means they spend much more time together than average siblings. For that matter, some sets of twins develop a language specific to themselves that no one else understands.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Kaoru and Hikaru in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' do this regularly.
* ''[[Futakoi]]''.{{context}}
* ''[[
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Fred and George Weasley do this ''far'' more often in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fanfiction than they do in the source material. In some fics, they only ''ever'' talk this way -- sometimes because of [[Twin Telepathy]] or because they're a [[Single-Minded Twins|small hive mind]].
* When he [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1690&pid=33938#pid33938 finds himself in the parallel worlds] of ''[[Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure]]'', Douglas Sangnoir of ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' is temporarily split into two independent people and gets a kick out of doing this with himself.
== [[Film]] ==
* In the 1994 film ''[[Nell]]'', [[Jodie Foster]] plays the surviving member of a pair of twins, whose almost-incomprehensible speech is a mix of heavily-accented (and mispronounced) Biblical vocabulary and a private twin language she created with her sister before she died.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Fred and George Weasley from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' have a reputation for this among the fans (see ''Fan Works'', above), but don't actually do it all that often.
* Who could forget Tweedledum and Tweedledee from ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There]]''?
* ''[[The Corsican Brothers]]''{{context}}▼
* Castor and Pollux Stone
* Also from [[Robert A. Heinlein|Heinlein]], Lapis Lazuli "Laz" Long and Lorelei Lee "Lor" Long from ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' and subsequent novels.
* ''[[The Belgariad]]''{{'}}s Beltira and Belkira. ''"We're sorry, it's - " "Our nature."''▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Gem and Gemma from ''[[
* The Sklar brothers of ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
* The song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbCqZpA97-0 "Idioglossary"] by [[Ponyphonic]] is about a private language created by a pair of siblings and briefly covers some of ''how'' it was created. The title of the song is a shout-out to one of the formal terms for such a private language, "idioglossia", as noted below in ''Real Life''.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* The
== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* Shion and Mion from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Marian and Stephanie from ''[[Fragile]]'', while far from single-minded, occasionally are [http://www.fragilestory.com/strips/chapter_06_page_23 "doing some weird twin-chat"].
* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' has sisters of Cessily (and as such [[The Fair Folk|snow fairies]]) [http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/Playing_video_games Neige and Sorbet].
== [[Web Original]] ==
* The [[Duumvirate]] does this without sentence-finishing.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
*
*
* Tomax and Xamot of ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Musicians [[Tegan and Sara]] are known to do this.
▲* ''The Corsican Brothers''
* The creation of a private language between twins is actually common enough to have a couple formal terms for it in psychological literature: "idioglossia" and "cryptophasia".
▲* Castor and Pollux Stone, ''[[The Rolling Stones (Literature)|The Rolling Stones]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]]. Also Laz and Lor in his later novels.
▲* Shion and Mion from [[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]] do this occasionally, but sometimes it [[Yandere|isn't]] [[Kill'Em All|always for laughs]].
▲* Gem and Gemma from ''[[Power Rangers RPM (TV)|Power Rangers RPM]]'' are an extreme case, as it is exceedingly rare for them to individually speak in complete sentences- usually they alternate words or phrases.
▲* [[The Belgariad]]'s Beltira and Belkira. ''"We're sorry, it's - " "Our nature."''
▲* ''[[Bakemonogatari (Light Novel)|Bakemonogatari]]'''s [[Next Time On]] sequences are rapid-fire, seemingly random exchanges between Tsukihi and Karin, the main character's younger sisters.
▲* The Sklar brothers of ''[[Cheap Seats (TV)|Cheap Seats]]'' (Also a staple of their stand-up routine)
▲* The [[Real Life]] comedy duo, [http://www.stoneandstone.org/ Stone and Stone]. [[Sibling Yin-Yang]] and [[Incest Subtext]] ahoy.
▲* Ethan and Evan in ''[[Dalton (Fanfic)|Dalton]]''
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