Quotes / Starfish Language

This pitted, faceted rock serves the Correspondence as: punctuation. Protection. A legal token. An illegal weapon. A punchline. It's an odd language.

—Starstone Demark description, Fallen London

Sergeant Schlock: In my language, my homeworld is called bruuurrp.
*Beat. Tagon goes green.*
Tagon: I'm all for cultural diversity, but please, please never speak your native language at a state dinner.
Schlock: [grinning] Do you want to hear our word for 'this food gives me gas'?

— Schlock Mercenary

This is a life-bearing world in the Andromeda galaxy. I cannot pronounce the local name for you. My arms bend the wrong way, and the clicks don't sound right above water. Translated, however, it means "Wet."

—Petey, Schlock Mercenary

I know a race made of sentient gas who throw fireballs as a friendly wave. I know another race with 64 stomachs who talk to each other by disemboweling... My point being, that in a universe as immense and bizarre as this one, you cannot be too quick to judge.

— The Doctor, Doctor Who

<In wolfrider,> Mata sent, <too many and so many and all the numbers of many and not many and - and many other things - are all one word, with different colors.>
<Colors?> Rhysel asked.
<That is not the real word for it. Leraal does not have one, but one meaning of the word in wolfrider that means it is "color" - if you make it a different "color",> Tama sent.

—Elcenia

Uh... Sorry, I don't speak PlayStation.

— Chuggaaconroy, Super Mario Galaxy 2

The tentacled aliens communicated exclusively through intricate patterns of touch. Their message of peace was reassuring, and also a pretty great back massage. We told them we’d think about it, but they'd need to tell lots more people about it first, some of us more than once.

—This Micro Flash Fiction tweet

The lighting in the room brightens, as though it were coming to life. The skin against the back wall slits itself open like a mouth, revealing jagged, crooked teeth. The mouth hisses, and the sound crawls through your body. It feels like your blood is physically moving in your veins. Fuse winces, tensing, shaking. He looks visibly hurt by the noise.
The hissing stops... and the mouth begins to speak.
"Oh! This is sorry, am thought that you can the blood speak! One uses the word tongue now, good?"

— Blood is Mine

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