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== Fan Works ==

* The clumsily written fanfic ''[[Lisa Is Pregnant]]'' reads like this. "You awake. Bart is d'oh."

 

== Film ==

* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel ''The Galactic Whirlpool'', a culture stuck on a lost [[City in a Bottle|Generation starship]] for three centuries develops a dialect of pigin English. They still know full English and use it in religious ceremonies, but consider it stilted and overly ornate for everyday use.

* ''[[Wicked (novel)|Wicked]]'': Turtle Heart is to be surprised he is not to be mentioned yet. But Turtle Heart is to have been a small part that is to be served purely to be questioning Nessarose's father.

* [[C. S. Lewis]]' ''[[The Space Trilogy|Out of the Silent Planet]]'' inverts this — the supposedly civilized scientists who intend to conquer Malacandra don't bother much with the local lingo, and as a result sound crude and vicious next to the linguist they've brought as a hostage.

* Various species of ''[[Redwall]]'' use different varieties of English, mostly based on actual British accents, but a few fall into this trope. The Sparra inexplicably use what seems to be old-stereotype Native American accents ("Can you imagine Friar Hugo's face when Warbeak tells him to 'burn fishworm good'?"), and some of the vermin use very broken English ("Dis de blade wot stop your breath"). It doesn't seem to be a sign of stupidity in the case of the Sparra, though, just that they have very little contact with the mammals.

** In a similar vein, an early ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' episode features a lost colony of humans whose language has "devolved" into a primitive form after 70 years of non-contact with Earth.

*** To be fair, everyone except for the very youngest children had died off all at once several generations back; so everyone living there now learned to speak from people who had barely learned to speak themselves, having no adults to teach them better.

** Or "The Omega Glory" where warfare reduced two nations to "tribes" speaking a mangled, devolved English.

** Who could forget "Devil in the Dark", featuring the Horta, which at one point carves the words "NO KILL I" in the cavern floor using its searing-hot flesh?

** And then there's Fry, who - being Fry - just does this randomly.

{{quote|Bender need brain for smart-making!}}

** "Few! Happy few! Band brothers!"

* ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]'' had the Siamese cats [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=fxpN2XrYDLM speaking this way].

* The development of English itself is bound up in this trope. Old English, having developed from several west germanic dialects along the North Sea coast and later came into extensive contact with Old Norse, was losing many inflections well before 1066. As for afterwards, many described the developing standard as what Norman soldiers used to chat up Saxon barmaids.

 

* "Confucius say, he who no take candle not very bright."

* ''The Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show''. Explains itself, really.

 

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