History Main / SpockSpeak

** To use a specific example, some people with autism (for UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome, "pedantic speech" is a diagnostic criterion) tend to value precision and may prefer to speak using something like Spock Speak. Nowadays they are taught -- or teach themselves -- colloquial speech. Before high-functioning autism was an official diagnosis, such people often found themselves at home as university professors--possibly the [[TruthInTelevision origin]] for the Spock-speaking "absent-minded professor".

* UsefulNotes/{{Arabic|Language}} gets this hard. Whenever anyone speaks in Standard Arabic, it inevitably sounds stilted and formal, i.e. Spock Speak. This is expected when what you're talking about is complex philosophy, abstract theology, or high politics (especially when you're from, say, Egypt and your interlocutor is, for instance, Moroccan). It is also commonly used for formal written documents, such as textbooks, legal documents, etc. However, when foreigners learning Arabic try to use Standard Arabic in everyday situations —like instructing a cabbie— it comes out quite ridiculous and totally out of place. Imported media such as Disney movies and anime aired on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetoon Spacetoon]] is dubbed in Standard Arabic for the sake of being able to be understood by a wide audience, but some viewers may point out how it makes the characters sound like {{Creator/Al Jazeera}} newsreaders.

* ''ComicBook/XMen'': ComicBook/{{Storm}}, as well as ComicBook/{{Magneto}} and Colossus (and many other minor characters) as written by Creator/ChrisClaremont. Storm always speaks this way, even in other-media adaptations, though she doesn't in [[Film/XMenFilmSeries the live action movies]].
* Perennial ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' villain the Super-Skrull talks like this, like most of his race we've seen so far. In an issue of ComicBook/YoungAvengers, his lack of contractions even used to [[GlamourFailure identify him posing as another character.]]

* James-Michael in ''ComicBook/OmegaTheUnknown'', due to being [[spoiler: raised by robots]]. His SpiritualSuccessor, Titus-Alexander, has the same stilted speech patterns.
* ComicBook/{{X 23}}, having never been exposed to the outside world while growing up, speaks in a very rigid, measured way. She also doesn't use slang and has never once used a contraction.

* The Occupant from Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics'' run talks like this. It's even {{Lampshaded}}:

* Several characters in ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' speak like this, most notably the robot Beautie.
* DependingOnTheWriter, ComicBook/WonderWoman often speaks without contractions.
* ''ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas:'' Bob Grayson (The Uranian / Marvel Boy) speaks with no contractions. He didn't in his earliest appearances in the fifties, but he does on his reappearance in the modern day, to indicate his general "alien-ness" and detachment from humanity as a whole.
* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers:'' The Vision, who was physically modelled after Leonard Nimoy himself, often talks in this fashion, as befitting a hyper-advanced synthezoid. In Roy Thomas's run, an issue begins with him and Quicksilver both engaging in this, which the far less reserved Scarlet Witch teases them about. Quicksilver, ever the {{Jerkass}}, declares it a point of pride that he has not been "contaminated" by American colloquialisms like his sister.

* The Occupant from Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'' run talks like this. It's even {{Lampshaded}}:

* Yuki Nagato from ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya''. [[spoiler:She speaks like that because she's an "alien-human interface"; in plain English, she's the mouthpiece of an incredibly intelligent and rational alien entity that cannot communicate through speech. However, there is another such interface in the series which is able to pose as an attractive and highly popular schoolgirl, exhibiting none of the "robotic" tendencies of Nagato. Why one is more convincingly human than the other is never explained.]]
** {{Fanon}} claims that [[spoiler: the reason the other interface goes AxCrazy and tries to kill Kyon is because having and showing emotions make her more unstable. While Nagato is stable because she doesn't have strong emotions. This is supported by the fourth novel, wherein her emotional buildup from a previous arc causes a massive and largely unwanted (depending on which fanon camp you sit with) reality shift.]]

* In ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' Vorona's speech tends to be a mix of this and... ''{{s|trangeSyntaxSpeaker}}omething'' thanks to the fact that she learned speaking Japanese entirely from textbooks.

* Sousuke from ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'', exhibiting most of the above requirements. He almost always prefers "affirmative," speaks in short phrases, has a complete lack of understanding of slang and all of the more normal behavior for someone his age. Tessa utilizes a much milder case when she's in command, but in her case it's a choice, and her NotSoStoic moments are more numerous, especially around Sousuke.
** Sousuke doesn't do Spock Speak so much as Military Speak, ie short clipped to the point and redundantly clear phrases. The kind one would use on a battlefield where life and death is at stake to make sure there is no possibility of miscommunication. In other words he almost always talks as if he's giving or receiving orders, or delivering a status report.