History PlayingWith / Omniglot

* '''Enforced''': The premise of the show has Alice visiting remote parts of a dozen obscure countries without a translator, so [[NecessaryWeasel she pretty much]] ''[[NecessaryWeasel has]]'' [[NecessaryWeasel to be good at languages for the thing to work]].

** Alice is a CunningLinguist and is multilingual, but not to an unrealistic or unusual extent.

* '''Downplayed''': Alice speaks a dozen languages fluently, though there are a few gaps in her knowledge.

** Alice have the ability of understant every language instinctively.

** Alice is an angel or other emissary from {{God}} and can speak in tongues.

** Alice is a higher-dimensional being where time is irrelevant. Because of this, any language she is exposed, she will automatically and instantaneously speak it flawlessly, beyond time.
** Alice is telepathic.

** Alice is monolingual in a society of omniglots.

** Alice can fluently speak every single language known to man ''except'' the one used in her home town, which she can't speak a single word of.

** Somebody sets off a whole load of {{Angrish}}-laden nonsense, and Alice points out they called themselves a giant purple elephant who dances in ten different languages within one sentence.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice speaks thirty languages... but ''not'' the one language that she needs right now... so she learns it in ten minutes... ''badly''... only to find that Christophe, to whom she needs to talk, speaks her language perfectly anyway, being an example of this trope himself.

* '''Enforced''': The premise of the show has Alice visiting remote parts of a dozen obscure countries without a translator, so she pretty much ''has'' to be good at languages for the thing to work.

* '''Exploited''': Alice gets hired as a translator.

* '''Discussed''': "So unless you think you're some sort of cartoon super-genius and can magically learn Swahili by tomorrow morning, you're not going on that mission."

** Alice does indeed speak a lot of languages, but the study and constant practice required to learn and maintain them takes up just about all of her time, and what was once a fun hobby has turned into a stressful chore.

** In the case of an immortal Alice she learned the languages slowly over time - and said languages often evolve quite a bit over millennia. Depending on the number of times she learned it she can merely sound old fashioned, suffer from AntiquatedLinguistics, or if learned across several different time periods winding up with a bizarre equivalent of YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe. Anyone except for experts in the language across history [[RealityIsUnrealistic assume she is crazy and deliberately speaking an old form of the language badly.]].

%%* '''Played for Drama''': ???

** A.L.I.C.E. is a robot designed to assist diplomats in a play set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.

** In the case of an immortal Alice she learned the languages slowly over time - and said languages often evolve quite a bit over millennia. At best using any language she hasn't kept up to date on she sounds like someone's grandmother. At worst it and used it resulting in the equivalent of BuffySpeak combined with AntiquatedLinguistics. Anyone except for professors who would know/have attempted to reconstruct the old languages would [[RealityIsUnrealistic assume she is crazy and/or putting on some act]].