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Amigos! Señores, señoras, y of course señoritas! Keep open your eyes, ears y tutti quanti. I no going to be wasting your time with big speeches. I just wanting to tell you the whole big picture: Los Alpha Sections are traitors, banditos, impostors, rascals, wooden nickels! [...] Et voilà!
Secundo, Beyond Good & Evil

To kick the dead horse of El Dorado's broken English, I'm going to use an example from the time I achieved the dream of everyone who watched movies in the seventies— meeting Dolemite. I speak a moderate amount of English for an uneducated, mildly retarded man and I said, "Hi, Dolemite. It's a real honor to meet such a bad motherfucker." Now if I was to be the same me, but of different nationality, it would have come out in standard broken English like this: "Hello friend yes. I... injured to ah how you say meat you. Excite is me mr. big cheese number-one." In the specialized Super Friend El Dorado broken English, I would have said, "Hola, Amigo! Yo am very exhilirated para make your aquaintance. Burrito!" I can guarantee you that if that was what I actually said to Dolemite, the insides of my rat soup eating ass would still be filled with his foot.

Let's talk to some witnesses who know every English word but "Yes".
Scully, Monster of the Week, Season 4, Episode 11

[My journal] may be written in English, Japanese, or German, or a combination of all three. If you wanna be a smart ass and tell me the grammar sucks, save it. It's hard to juggle all of this so give me a break.

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