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Tropes specifically having to do with use of language, including translations.
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A Worldwide Punomenon
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Accent Tropes
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AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle
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Acronym and Abbreviation Overload
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Acronym Confusion
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Aliens Speaking English
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All Lowercase Letters
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Alternate Character Reading
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Altum Videtur
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Ambiguous Syntax
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Animal Talk
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Antiquated Linguistics
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Armchair Psychology
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Artistic License Linguistics
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign
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Asian Speekee Engrish
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Atomic F-Bomb
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Author Vocabulary Calendar
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Baby Language
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Baby Talk
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Bilingual Backfire
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Dialogue
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Bite the Wax Tadpole
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Black Speech
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Blind Idiot Translation
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Buffy-Speak
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Busman's Vocabulary
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By "No" I Mean "Yes"
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Call a Human a Meatbag
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Call a Rabbit a Smeerp
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Call a Smeerp a Rabbit
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Canis Latinicus
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Chinese Dialects and Accents
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Classical Tongue
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Cluster F-Bomb
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Common Tongue
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Con Lang
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Conveniently Precise Translation
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Country Matters
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Curse of the Ancients
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Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
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Cypher Language
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Deadly Euphemism
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Delusions of Eloquence
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Category:Dialogue
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Did Not Do the Bloody Research
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Dissimile
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Don't Call Me "Sir"!
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Duck
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Either World Domination or Something About Bananas
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El Spanish-O
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome
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Eloquent in My Native Tongue
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Entendre Failure
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Esperanto, the Universal Language
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Eternal English
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Even the Subtitler Is Stumped
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Everyone Gets Their Turn
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Everything Sounds Sexier in French
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Everything's Cuter with Lucky Charms
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Fan Sub
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Fan Translation
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Fang Thpeak
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Fantastic Measurement System
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Fantastic Slurs
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Faux Fluency
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Fictionary
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Flowery Elizabethan English
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Flowery Insults
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Fonts
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Foreign Cuss Word
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Foreign Language Tirade
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Foreign Looking Font
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Foreigners Write Backwards
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From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
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Fun with Acronyms
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Fun with Foreign Languages
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Fun with Palindromes
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Fun with Subtitles
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Future Slang
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Gender Vocabulary Slip
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Get Thee to a Nunnery
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Good Bad Translation
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Gosh Dang It to Heck
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Got Me Doing It
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Gratuitous English
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Gratuitous Foreign Language
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Gratuitous French
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Gratuitous German
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Gratuitous Greek
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Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter
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Gratuitous Italian
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Gratuitous Japanese
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Gratuitous Russian
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Gratuitous Spanish
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Green Is Blue
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Hash House Lingo
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Have a Gay Old Time
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Hiding Behind the Language Barrier
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Hold Your Hippogriffs
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Hollywood Spelling
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How Do You Say...?
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Hurricane of Puns
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I Do Not Speak Nonverbal
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I Just Like Saying the Word
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Ice Cream Koan
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In My Language, That Sounds Like...
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In the Local Tongue
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Incredibly Lame Pun
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Indo-European Alien Language
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Informed Obscenity
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Inherently Funny Words
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Innuendo Tropes
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Intentional Engrish for Funny
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Intentionally Awkward Title
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International Pop Song English
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It Is Dehumanizing
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It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"
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Language Drift
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Language Equals Thought
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Language of Magic
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Language of Truth
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Category:Language Tropes
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Language Tropes/Quotes
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Last-Second Word Swap
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Least Rhymable Word
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Leet Lingo
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Left Field Description
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Letters 2 Numbers
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Like Is, Like, a Comma
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Category:Localization Tropes
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Lucky Charms Title
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Lucky Translation
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Lyrical Tic
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Magical Foreign Words
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Magick
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Mamet Speak
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Metaphorgotten
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Microts
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Mixed Metaphor
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Mondegreen
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Multiple Reference Pun
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
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Narrative Profanity Filter
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Neologism
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Never Say "Die"
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No Longer with Us
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No Pronunciation Guide
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No Punctuation Is Funnier
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No Punctuation Period
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Nu Speling
O
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Obligatory Corporate Initialism
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Obligatory Swearing
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Oh My Gods
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Omniglot
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Once For Yes, Twice For No
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One, Two, Three, Four, Go
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Orphaned Etymology
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Pardon My Klingon
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Person as Verb
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Phantasy Spelling
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Pig Latin
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Pluralses
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Point of View
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Poirot Speak
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Popular Saying, But...
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Portmanteau
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Precision F-Strike
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Prepositions Are Not to End Sentences With
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Pretentious Latin Motto
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Pronoun Trouble
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Prophecies Rhyme All the Time
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Psmith Psyndrome
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Punctuation Shaker
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Punny Stuff
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Re Lex
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Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic
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Recursive Acronym
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Recursive Translation
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Romantic Hyperbole
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Rouge Angles of Satin
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Royal We
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