This Troper has a friend who constantly said "Your Face" as an all-purpose retort. One day, the following ensued: #QUOTE#Friend:"Those car rims are nice." #QUOTE#Me: "Yeah, well so's your face!"

Do I know you? That seems awfully familiar!

...Are you my sister? She makes sure that I NeverLiveItDown.

This Troper started talking in four-word sentences due to trying to figure out a specific ''Series/DoctorWho'' spoiler regarding such a sentence, then spread it to a GaiaOnline guild.

Once, when This Troper was reading six-word-stories, she started writing six words a post on message boards, and if that wasn't feasible to get her message across, it became lines of six words each.

This troper has managed to pick up a habit of making "New Rules" from watching ''Real Time with Bill Maher''. Once. And one advert.

I had gotten a habit of casually reffering to some people with Mister or Miss, I got someone else do- do I really have to tell you?

This troper tends to speak like whatever TV show she is {{Archive Binge}}ing. At the moment it's Star Trek TOS and TheWestWing, which has lead to some strange collusions of lack of contractions, excessive use of "you know", and repetition of phrases.

Apparently StarTrek makes this happen. This troper's been watching TNG and has found herself doing Data's head tilt thing.

This Troper lives his life this way. Not only will he speak like the characters in TV shows or movies he is watching, he will act like them too. Completely subconsciously, too.

Same thing as this troper! Word of advice, don't adopt 'The Simple Life' as a guilty pleasure.

Also happens to this troper. Most frequently, I talk in the pseudo-Western style of {{Firefly}}, tilt my head in confusion like Castiel and can't help but say 'fantastic' just like Nine.

This troper would binge on Series/DoctorWho for hours on end, then get stuck in a British accent, while talking far too quickly for comfort.

That is the exact same thing that happened to me a few years ago. (It was a bit more intentional, though, since I was going through an Anglophile phase at the time.)

This troper actually needs to hear someone else doing an accent in order to pick it up. His friends weren't happy with him after he watched a marathon of ''Torchwood'' and ''Doctor Who'' and forced him to watch American television until his accent changed back.

This Troper was once caught imitating Adrian Monk's hand gestures in public.

You too? Actually I've caught myself doing that a lot, among with pressing my cane to my forehead(early eps have it more) Although people don't notice much when I do it.

After seeing IronMan, this troper unconsciously started talking with Tony Stark's speech pattern. It had to be pointed out by her two best friends (who found it ''hilarious'').

During one family get together, this troper got caught in the middle of a hurricane of puns, courtesy of her uncle and her father. This troper finally got so sick of the puns, each worse than the last, that she finally spoke up. She meant to say "This isn't funny anymore." What came out instead? "This isn't punny!"

This troper doesn't know who it was who started adding the clever phrases that link back to original articles from the TroperTales pages, but they've got her doing it now.

I unintentionally picked up a British accent while in London, which I hardly noticed until my mom pointed it out.

I do that just reading HarryPotter!

I do that while playing the Plastic Beach Game. Including the obscure cockney phrases Murdoc, 2D, and the repairman constantly spew. It's kind of fun , even if no one understands you.

I once ended up ''thinking'' in a British accent after listening to the ArtemisFowl audiobooks.

I ended up thinking and reading in BenCroshaw's voice after a ZeroPunctuation ArchiveBinge.

I can tell when my roommate has been skyping with her friend from Britain since she picks up the accent. Then, if I listen to her too long, I pick it up too.

Something like this happened to this troper. His friend started talking in Spanish for no apparent reason other than to bother him. While they were talking, the troper continued talking in English while the friend continued talking in Spanish. After a couple more exchanges, this troper started talking in Spanish as well. He caught himself rather late (after ~5 words) and his friend never fails to let it down.

This troper has repeatedly caught himself singing songs his siblings have listened to a lot.

This troper's friend is the master of finding and catching accidental innuendos so that he can say "That's what she said." Aaaaand yes I did do this back to him without even realizing it.

Are you my sister as well?

In a D&D I was in I was playing a dark brooding TokenEvilTeammate while one of other players was playing a perv who made obscene coments about everything (we were both trying to roleplay low Charisma in different ways). After a fight where he died and I lost all my Wisdom, I found myself 'picking up the slack' for his old character, purely unintentionally. I decided that, while I hated said character, I was so used to his perverted antics and offensive humor that, in my weakened state, I was unable to function without them and so had begun to "channel" him.

The word "wossname" has officially entered this American Troper's casual vocabulary, and is unlikely to be leaving anytime soon.

This Troper was in denial when she began to watch {{Glee}}. One can only take so much of her mother watching it in the next room over before the songs just become TOO catchy. On another note, I have a friend who always comes up with the most wicked catch-phrases and stupid comments. Within two days, you can expect EVERYONE in our immediate friend group to be addicted to using said phrase.

I always seem to pick up random phrases and behaviors and never notice until they're pointed out to me. From copying my friend's characteristic head nod to using the phrase "Jeezy Creezy" because of {{Eddie Izzard}}: If there's an interesting habit, I catch it.

Remember CowAndChicken? Remember the Red Guy? Remember how whenever he was annoyed or mocking someone, he would talk in a singsong voice that at times almost bordered on opera? ...Guess what mannerism this troper only just realized she picked up at around the age of nine or ten.

This troper, currently in a production of ThePiratesOfPenzance, has been annoying everyone she knows humming the songs and making up new words to the tunes. A few days ago, she caught her otherwise uninvolved roommate singing "With catlike tread" to herself.

This troper gets annoyed at her brother whenever he quotes a Disney movie or song (specifically anything from AliceInWonderland) because someone (whether it be a character in something he's watching/reading or an actual person he's talking to) said something similar to a particular line. Cue him grinning whenever she unwittingly finds herself doing the same, and her swearing at the realization of what she just did.

I'm bad about this myself, particularly after perusing SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. My brother, on the other hand, used to pick up speech patterns - ranging from a British accent to JiveTurkey within minutes. He's gotten better about that, though.

Thanks to watching hours of Series/DoctorWho lately in preperation for Ten's regeneration, this troper has started using the Doctor's 'weeeell' catchphrase. She seriously wishes she would stop, as it's getting a little annoying, but it's become a habit.

Ditto! Except I wish I could say it stopped at "well." I've also picked up "Allons-y," "brilliant," "fantastic," and even bits of the accent sometimes. Although Harry Potter, Discworld, and Monty Python were equally to blame for that last one.

Now you've got me wondering if I picked up "weeeelll" from Ten. (Usually it's easier to tell...)

Whenever this troper watches or plays a game he particularly lies, he always finds he emulates certain character's distinctive mannerisms, speech style or even their general demeanour. It's better not to approach him when he's watched a medley of Jimmy Carr, for example...

This troper does this all the time. Notable examples include saying Japanese words or phrases (such as nani or etto) after watching anime or being around Japanese-obsessed friends, picking up on Sora's idle hands-behind-head stance, and most recently lapsing into a southern or Cajun accent now that I'm into X-Men (Gambit and Rogue being two of my favorite characters)

This troper's best friend has the habit of looking for psychological reasons behind every little pain or ache. Now I can't hear someone coughing without asking if they are afraid of saying something. Also, on a less crazy note, too many anime made me use "nya" and "Hyuu" when I don't know what to say (and I spread this to my boyfriend) and something to the effect of "it's all futile details" when I deliberately overlook simple logic or, I don't know, laws of physics in my reasoning. The latter has become a meme in my class.

While at university, this troper's choir did a tour in Australia. One week in, and the entire group had switched to an Aussie accent.

This troper will unconsciously mimic other people's accents or verbal tics over time. Sometimes he does it for fun.

Similar for this troper when he was younger, except it would even include things like when someone would talk to him when they had a sore throat.

This troper has rather embarrassingly caught himself walking with an imaginary cane after starting to watch ''{{House}}''.

This troper was a little odd after a double ArchiveBinge of SuzumiyaHaruhi and Series/DoctorWho; spending an entire night watching all my [=DVDs=] of both. For a while the next day, I had a tendency to talk about modifying the flow of data to invent the VHS tape 30 years too early, among other things.

This troper tends to subconciously nod her head a lot during conversations. Her friends have told her that she got them doing it.

Mira-chan has gotten other ''straight'' people to use gayspeak.

Playing BanjoKazooie for extended periods of time once caused This Troper to start rhyming without even- oh no, it's happening again!

A large scale case occured to this troper's friends on one camping holiday. One guy started speaking with a stereotypical Accents}} english farmer accent as a joke. By the end of the week I was pretty much the only one of us (and there were nearly twenty of us) who hadn't started dropping into the accent every other sentence.

I have this chandelier in my bedroom that my mom ''constantly'' bangs her head on. When I banged my head into it, my immediate response was "Oh, ''great.'' Now she's got ''me doing it!''"

This troper's friends have come to the conclusion that her typos are contageious. If you talk to her for long enough, you WILL start to typo thing as well.

This troper, after reading and highlighting Huck Finn for a class, found herself wanting to write "cain't" and similar things in her final essay for the book.

This troper has a lot of problems with this. She uses a lot of British slang, some that is just plain weird and unauthentic, and often spells with a weird hybrid of European and US-American spellings. She speaks with more Spanish/geekspeak than appropriate for her audience. Thanks to PhineasAndFerb, she always answers yes-or-no questions with the word 'yes' or 'no' said twice. She also, embarrassingly, uses cat etiquette around humans, thus having a weird and unfortunate habit of not making eye contact when she’s trying to make a good impression. Oh, and she has a lot of Troper habits, like Tropespeak and markup, but we all know that feeling, right?

Wow. Take out the PhineasAndFerb and you've created an entire list of my strange speech habits. Are you me from an alternate dimension or something?

After taking a course on Shakespeare in college, This Troper had a tendency to lapse into iambic pentameter that lasted for several weeks. She still does it occasionally when writing papers.

During one school holidays one of my friends came over so much that he begun speaking like me, common use of expletives, random babbling. This got so bad his mom begun refering to him by my name, which caused him to swear. He's stopped coming over as much now but still occasionally falls back into it.

I've caught myself doing a lot of things. Sometimes I find myself tapping out The Master's beat(I just did it as I'm typing), once the word 'Twoleg' entered my thoughts somehow, I ''have'' to sing any japanese song that plays on my computer that I've heard before(I don't sing well), staring at statues for a moment, randomly spouting Double and Accel's catchphrases, and "Brilliant" is permenantly in main vocabulary as is Allons-y.

This Troper, above posting, will also find a chorus of Exterminate and Exterminiren in my head.

Not only have I picked up Ten's catchphrases, but physical mannerisms as well, the head-tilting, the ear-scratching,the head-touching,as well the british accent. and anytime I spend too long in the 'verse, I pick up their particular manner of speech and have to remind myself to stop. and as a result of so much tv I speak in a weird mix of American and British accents, but I tend to lean towards British since Doctor Who is my favourite show.Thanks,Ten.you caught it off Rose, now you've infected how knows how many!

I had an unshakable Brit accent for days after bingeing on ''{{Coupling}}'', finishing the entire series in two days. My sense of humor has also become markedly British as well. My father, a major Brit-Hating American has been mocking me for a long time...

Once this troper spent the whole weekend reading the entire Warriors series (which contained 19 books at the time) and for the next few weeks used Clan terminology, like referring to spring as "newleaf", cars as "monsters", noon as "sunhigh" and an idiot as "being mouse brained."

That happened to this troper too, to the point then when I had to walk my dog and she squatted on my neighbors lawn, I went "No you mouse brain! This isn't our territory!"

This troper's mannerisms appear to be contagious. Her friends will often find themselves clapping once at the end of a sentence for emphasis, or saying "Here, take this," whenever giving something to someone else.

After reading Harry Potter, watching Monty Python, and in general hanging around British-y things for too long, This Troper, when ranting, now sometimes delves into a British accent. It's gotten so bad that my sister now mocks me about it, and I've got to consciously keeps myself from doing it at school.

This Troper is now mostly unable to stop herself tapping out the Master's "drumbeat" from Series/DoctorWho. I did it in a ''GCSE'', and it helped me concentrate!

I do the same thing with Love Lockdown. {{What}}?

me too! ever since the first episode with that beat I constantly hear the drumming and do the tapping.

For acting, I practiced a British accent. Now, when I swear at my computer, its in a British accent.

Try reading original Edgar Allen Poe and then writing if you're prone to picking up writing styles. You'll suddenly find you use fancy words and ramble a lot. Since I caught myself doing this, I will not write after listening to say, Huck Finn.

This Troper learnt English outside the US, where she lives now. She spoke with a very distinguishable London pattern. After a while, the accent went away, and New Jersey won the battle, but I still use British spelling for words like ''colour, flavour'' and despises the word ''learned''. On a completely unrelated note, Italy introduced me to the Tic "''Ve~''", which I now consider a necessary part of asking a question.

This troper's friend and co-worker is originally from Southern California. I begin to subconsciously imitate his accent after talking to him for an extended period of time.

Not only will this Troper pick up a British accent, but I'll also start speaking in a Japanese accent if I watch too much subbed anime. (I can't speak Japanese) This Troper also has assimilated Ten's "Weeell..." and Nine's "Fantastic!"

This Troper once stayed up WAY to late reading Tropes (like that's new). When she stopped to go to bed, ''her brain started defining her bedroom objects like they were tropes.'' The Troper Tone got in her ''head''!

This Troper gets rather unhealthily obsessed with things, and they usually affect how she acts in some way or another. When she was in her David Tennant phase, she ate MUCH more than normal and put way more stuff than usual in her mouth (especially when fangirling about {{Blackpool}}) When she was obsessed with {{Lewis}} she started enjoying the smell of cigarette smoke more than she should. When she was obsessed with {{Hustle}} she started looking for ways to nick things from people's pockets or hide somebody's pen without them noticing (only did it once though) When reading her way through Poirot novels she has started to speak like somebody from the 1930s, and she has also started to say tropes out loud every time she sees them on TV etc

This Troper has found himself tapping out the Master's rhythm on multiple occasions, and has a habit of picking up the mannerisms (verbal and physical) of whomever he is speakings to remarkably quickly, to the point he has to consciously remind himself not to do so in case people believe he is mocking them. On other levels, This troper spent his Uni days in Dundee, and thereafter knows that he has had too much to drink when he slips into a broad Stirling accent (flatmates from Stirling). Also, his ex-girlfriend has given this Troper a habit of occasionally (unnecessarily) pluralising verbs and proper nouns with an appended 's'. This example had to proofed against stray 's' several times.

This troper will tend to start speaking in whatever accent she has just heard on a tv program, or whoever she was talking too, if they have a southern or other accent. Usually southern, living in Florida.

Once I went on a binge of Yu Gi Oh the Abridged Series laaateee at night. The next day, to my irritation, I couldn't stop saying things in an incredibly hammy way and acting like random characters. It was all I could do to not spout any catchphrases and I got weird looks from a lot of people. I also tend to pick up vague mannerisms from my school teachers and steal phrases from my friends.

Now that this troper has seen TheRoom, he always greets everyone with "Oh hi, [name]"

This troper. Reading ''{{Discworld}}''. The Igorth. That [[strike:ith]] is all.

You may be one of this troper's coworkers if you ever find yourself saying "no worries", (and you're not Australian), "groovy" and "oy" a lot.

After listening to the ConfessionsOfGeorgiaNicholson series on audiobook, I've begun THINKING in a British accent.

This Troper has been reading the ''{{Uglies}}'' books lately, and has embarrassingly caught herself saying "brain-missing" and "pretty-making." Good God.

This Troper has ElmuhFuddSyndwome and occasionally, his best friend pronounces R's as W's by accident. He also ends random words with -y and now this troper does too.

After watching {{Kanon}}, this troper picked up Sayuri's "Ahaha~" tic and uses it while online. He also picked up a tendency from his friend to say "Uue?" as a substitute for "Huh?" or "What?".

{{Redwall}}'s vermin speak with a pseudo-cockney FunetikAksent. This troper's found herself dropping into it occasionally, particularly agreeing by saying "Yerss, yerss indeedy!" For some reason I also sing along to TheDecemberists in a vermin accent sometimes. Would be easily explainable if Colin Meloy sounded like that, but he doesn't ... Sounds great with "Culling of the Fold" though.

This troper goes to I Can Haz Cheezburger a lot. Now some words he types end in "Z" for no reason.

Whenerver this Troper finds a character she really likes from something she likes, she sometimes starts borrowing their traits. For example, when she started reading ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', she caught herself emulating Violet Baudelaire's trademark tying back of her hair to think. After seeing ''The Dark Knight'', she caught herself emulating the Joker's licking of his lips when she was thinking about things.

Inversion: after reading JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac, this troper hasn't been saying '[[spoiler:wacky]]' as much...

But played straight in that she'll occasionally pick up mannerisms from characters she likes. Unfortunately, most of these characters are batshit insane, so she's picked up the KubrickStare (from Alex de Large), the occasional (sarcastic) rant worthy of Boyd Cooper and a PsychoticSmirk (from a lot of characters, too many to count) as a reaction to the most mundane things.

This troper has a tendency to pick up mannerisms, both verbal and physical. "Frak" and "Oh, cock" have both worked their way into my everyday vocabulary, as well as "oy" and a couple Yiddish words from the use of YiddishAsASecondLanguage. So on one occasion, I consciously lampshaded my own tendency to do this. #QUOTE#'''Me:''' I played so much ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' over the weekend that I've developed the urge to add "kupo" to the end of my own sentences, kupo!

In a certain fandom, one or two popular people said 'damn' or 'dayum' in their sentences to express amazement or shock at something. Next week, almost every impressionable 14-19 year old is saying it, too. However, they just tend to blurt it out whenever they can.

The dorm above mine all started saying "true facts" and totes because one girl in the suite (maybe one girl for each phrase, can't remember for sure) always said that. After hanging out there a lot, I find myself using them too, even after I got home.

Also, growing up on Joss Whedon shows eternally tweaked my syntax and vocabulary.

This troper finds himself talking like TheJoker after he watches TheDarkKnight.

This troper has this in spades

After reading the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, I picked up the following:

Rubbing the side of my face, along the stubble, when thinking or stressed, just like Roland does, and Eddie picks up in the story.

Twirling my hand to denote exasperation, or have someone continue a story, again, just like Roland

Using High Speech phrases, such as "Thankee" and "Hear me very well".

I also picked up words from watching Firefly, most notably the ubiquitous "shiny"

I also picked up the habit of using words of fear as intensifiers (i.e., "terrifyingly beautiful"). Not only have my friends started doing this, but some of my students from last year while I was teaching English in Spain started doing it as well. Warms the cockles of my heart.

This troper definitely has a tendency to make use of Buffy Speak.

This troper, embarrassingly, says Can-eh-de-ah after her friend started to.

This troper finds himself often using his friend's substitute swear of "oh shiznits."

This is how this troper adapts most things,especially accents. After watching LordoftheRings,all he does half the time is speak like Gollum,the rest is divided between a Texan accent,a British accent,and Christian Bales horrible sounding,but EarWorm version of Batman.

This troper reads so much {{lolcats}} that their incorrect grammar and broken sentences have gotten into her way of speaking - "I can has the happy now?"

This troper has an accent which involves not pronouncing Rs. She talked to her friend from England via voicechat and after a while they realized they were mimicking eachother's accents

This troper, who was born and raised for a few years in New York, moved to Georgia when she was six or seven. When I returned to New York (the first time of three), I hadn't yet picked up on the accent, but had begun to throw in Southern phrases here and there (such as "jacked up"). The second time, I started to use those Southern phrases more often. The third time, I had a slight accent and the Southern phrases were used all the time. After a while, IGotBetter.

Unfortunately, now that I speak Spanish, I tend to develop a Spanish accent at random times.