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'''Alexa''': They think they're charming. |
'''Alexa''': They think they're charming. |
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'''Liana''': Rakish. |
'''Liana''': Rakish. |
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'''Alexa''': Roguish. |
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A [[Twin Tropes|Twin Trope]]. The tendency of twins to [[Witty Banter|banter]] with each other. This includes [[Finishing Each Other's Sentences]] and [[Comedy Duo|feeding each other lines]], among other things. A common trait of [[Single-Minded Twins]] and [[Twin Telepathy|Telepathic Twins]]. |
A [[Twin Tropes|Twin Trope]]. The tendency of twins to [[Witty Banter|banter]] with each other. This includes [[Finishing Each Other's Sentences]] and [[Comedy Duo|feeding each other lines]], among other things. A common trait of [[Single-Minded Twins]] and [[Twin Telepathy|Telepathic Twins]]. |
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This can also be done by other multiple siblings, or even [[Those Two Guys]]. |
This can also be done by other multiple siblings, or even [[Those Two Guys]] as long as they know each other well enough. |
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[[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. |
[[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]] == |
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* Kaoru and Hikaru in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' do this regularly. |
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== [[Fan Works]] == |
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* 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]]. |
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* 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. |
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== [[Film]] == |
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* 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. |
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== [[Literature]] == |
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* Who could forget Tweedledum and Tweedledee from ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There]]''? |
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* Also from [[Robert A. Heinlein|Heinlein]], Lapis Lazuli "Laz" Long and Lorelei Lee "Lor" Long from ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' and subsequent novels. |
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== [[Live-Action TV]] == |
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== [[Music]] == |
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* 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''. |
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== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] == |
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== [[Visual Novels]] == |
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== [[Web Comics]] == |
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== [[Web Original]] == |
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* The [[Duumvirate]] does this without sentence-finishing. |
* The [[Duumvirate]] does this without sentence-finishing. |
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== [[Western Animation]] == |
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* Who could forget [[Alice in Wonderland|Tweedledum and Tweedledee]]? |
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* Jim and Tim Possible from ''[[Kim Possible]]''. |
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* Jeremy and Ian from ''[[Barbie and the Diamond Castle]]''. They even banter ''in song''. |
* Jeremy and Ian from ''[[Barbie and the Diamond Castle]]''. They even banter ''in song''. |
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* Tomax and Xamot of ''[[G.I. Joe]]''. |
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== [[Real Life]] == |
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* [[Kim Possible|Jim and Tim Possible]]. |
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* Musicians [[Tegan and Sara]] are known to do this. |
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* Tomax and Xamot, of [[G.I. Joe]]. |
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* 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". |
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* [[Real Life]] example: [http://www.teganandsara.com Tegan & Sara]. |
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