Basic Trope: A work uses made-up Latin.
- Straight: Fake Latin words are used instead of real Latin.
- Exaggerated: The characters speak nothing but made-up Latin even when they're supposedly speaking some other language.
- Downplayed:
- Some made-up Latin words are used alongside real ones.
- The work uses real Latin... but it's really broken, grammatically incorrect Latin.
- Justified:
- None of the characters in the setting knows any actual Latin.
- The work is in an Alternate Universe where Latin is different.
- Inverted: The characters speak authentic Latin, but even though they and the creators nominally speak English as their first language, you wouldn't know it from the way they speak it.
- Enforced:
- The writers knew no Latin and didn't bother to research it, and so they made up Latin words.
- There wasn't a word in Latin that fitted in the scene, so the writers made up one.
- Averted:
- All Latin in the work is genuine.
- There is no Latin present in the work.
- Subverted: Bob uses fake Latin, but Alice calls him out and speaks correct Latin...
- Double Subverted: ...only to speak made-up Latin later.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Alice reveals she was messing with Bob and he reveals that he knew authentic Latin all along.
- Characters alternate using phony Latin and authentic Latin.
- Lampshaded: "Hey, Bob, you know that's not real Latin, right?"
- Parodied: Pig Latin is passed off as Latin.
- Invoked: Alice and Bob know that people think Smart People Know Latin, but they're too lazy to learn it for real, so they just end every other word with "-us" and hope nobody will call them out.
- Exploited:
- Alice and Bob are trying to find someone who knows Latin. When they come across a pair of Identical Strangers each claiming to be the person they want to see, they test their Latin knowledge to help Spot the Imposter.
- Alice and Bob use made-up Latin to throw off someone who doesn't know Latin and doesn't realize they aren't speaking authentic Latin.
- Defied: "I'm not making up some BS Latin just to make myself sound more intelligent than I really am."
- Discussed: "Smart People Know Latin, and I'm a smart person, therefore I know Latin." "Wrong."
- Conversed: "Could the writers not have found a Latin–English dictionary somewhere? Even I know that can't be correct Latin."
- Played for Laughs: Alice and Bob's incomplete or outright erroneous understanding of Latin is played for Cringe Comedy and/or Hypocritical Humor.
- Played for Drama: Alice and Bob are failing their mandatory Latin class because they expect it to be like the made-up Latin they know from literature, TV, movies, and music.
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