My brother. Often overlaps with DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment and ShapedLikeItself.

This is my usual mode of communicating in English on the Internet, presumably because, as a native Russian-speaker, I was mostly taught formal speech as opposed to the kind of English one would be likely to hear in casual conversations. Even in casual dialogue, I find myself unable to abhor formal terms for sexuality-related topics, and do not use slang words as a matter of principle. My habit to say "indeed" a lot began a long time before I was exposed to ''Main/{{Stargate SG-1}}'', and even then, I could not understand why Teal'c's verbal tic was considered peculiar. As a matter of fact, I have developed two distinct modes of speech for my ''Main/WorldOfWarcraft'' draenei character: straight Main/SpockSpeak when she is feeling confident in her ability to clearly present her arguments and the point she is trying to convey, while when she feels more, uh... insecure, the speech lapses into a less, let's say... otherworldly mode... with, you see, contractions, dropping the whole "sophisticated" routine, and, well, the occasional "uh".

You find yourself unable to abhor formal terms for sexuality-related topics? I am afraid I must ask you to clarify yourself.

I think the original speaker means they find themselves unable to hate saying 'well, sexual intercourse you, you foul bandit!' Or, worse, 'Yes, (sex partner of preferred gender) sexually stimulate me! Sexually stimulate me HARD!!'

Sometimes I speak SpockSpeak when precision is necessary, for any number of reasons, combined with the expediency of not wasting words and not coming to any conclusions too soon. Unfortunately, some who know I'm just as capable of speaking colloquially tend to read into it meanings that could never be interpreted from that selection of words, usually attributing some emotional context or personal motivation. People who've only known me to speak in SpockSpeak are more likely to take my statement as carved in granite, and then I don't have to repeat myself or chase down distorted rumors. SpockSpeak gets your point across very distinctively, but backfires with 'feelers' more often than 'thinkers'.

Actually, SpockSpeak less often backfires with 'feelers' than it reinforces what you've said. If someone is prone to misinterpret my words based on their feelings (deliberately or otherwise), any time they run it by anyone else who knows me (as feelers are prone to do,) they'll immediately think: "That's not how that guy talks. You must be full of shit."

This troper, being an Aspie, has had to teach herself ''not'' to do that. She's still pedantic, but can make idle chitchat, use colloquialisms (even though she tends to make up a fair amount of them herself), and generally converse with only a little difficulty... though, being one herself, she naturally relates better to geeks than to 'normal people'.

This troper, another Aspie, was extremely formal and stilted-sounding as a child (she also, for some reason, thought that good manners meant curtsying to the principal). As she grew older, she learned to incorporate colloquialisms and such into her speech, although sometimes said colloquialisms are odd or anachronistic. People still laugh when she says something like "I know precious little about things of that ilk." Her writing, in both English and French, is still fairly Spockish, with many uses of "thus," "nevertheless," "hence," "ergo," "furthermore," and other such "pretentious" words.

Wait, ergo is formal? Crap, I just realized I fit this trope..... for that as well as a hundred other reasons...

This troper has a roleplaying character who heavily conforms to this trope. It's justified in that the character in question is a homeschooled social recluse whose exposure to the English language has been mainly in the form of textbooks. This troper herself also tends to fall into SpockSpeak when she meets new people online and when she is arguing.

This troper has the ability to do it, but finds normal speech more natural. However, I still slip in words semi frequently, often confusing... Pretty much everyone. This especially annoys my jock friends, who demand me to restate my sentence (this is also jarring for them since I'll also use slang words, so I may use phrases such as "jacked up" and "quantum mechanics" in the same sentence). I then spend 10-20 seconds thinking of a smaller word to use, then a phrase to use if I can't think of a word. Yeah.

This troper has been told by someone on another site that she "talks like Spock". This may be true; she has occasionally caught herself using excessively formal language, both in writing and in speech. She has never actually seen Star Trek, though.

This troper has concluded that snark appears to be more humorous if the statement is made in a way similar to Mr. Spock. For instance, I might make the statement: "It appears that you have not made your decision using your best judgment. I suggest in the future you avoid that course of action", rather than say "That was stupid. Please don't try that again. " It is quite... fascinating. Since I'm slightly autistic, I used to do that a lot normally, though I've gotten somewhat better at it.

This troper uses Spock speak combined with CreepyMonotone mostly if someone fails to notice something obvious (for this troper, at least). This way, this troper doesn't tell them directly that they are wrong (and stupid sometimes), but through mathematical logic he leads them to this conclusion. Also, he has a lot of fun seeing their faces at their moments of personal epiphany.

Unfortunately, due to my lack of adequate social skills in combination with my excessive vocabulary (I am toning it down right now) I often lapse into SpockSpeak.

This troper usually does not do this in normal conversation. However, when speaking on the internet or trying to make a point in real life, I'll often slip into it. My sister called me out on it once, and I'm trying to tone it down. Mostly because I get the impression that it's probably irritating.

This Troper tends to use SpockSpeak if ''extremely'' irritated. He can also do it at will but likes normal speech.

This troper mixes this with BuffySpeak and a deluge of pop culture references. The effect is really quite weirdifying.

Oh my gosh... Are you me?

As a matter of course most scientists use this in clinical setting for experiments. Also combining it with acronyms creating an odd effect. Some disciplines don't even use the words good or bad.

This troper occasionally does it, combined with speaking in a really low voice. When he doesn't, he either mixes English with his first language, Portuguese, or speaks like a flanderized simpleton, with unholy amounts of swearing, and a really loud voice.

This troper has never had a huge problem with pedantic or overly verbose speech, but he used to (and still does sometimes) write with enough 50 dollar words that an unilingual Latin speaker would probably have no trouble parsing it. He has attempted to solve the problem, although now sometimes his writing is too colloquial, which can be just as much of a problem.

The angrier this troper is, the Spockier her speech becomes. She also uses it with authority figures as a means of being taken seriously in spite of her tiny stature and general porcelain-doll appearance. And when she's angry with authority figures...full-on Vulcan ice queen mode.

This Troper's friends repeatedly input the command "JT, stop being Spocky.". The fact that it is frequently combined with a JerkassFacade, unusually timed slang, and a substantial helping of Deadpan Snark results in some interesting conversations.

This Troper does this more times than she can count. And frequently with a British accent. At one point, she was discussing a character for a story she was writing with her best friend and said, "I've developed an adequate sociological explanation for her misanthropy" in an entirely too excited voice. Needless to say, said best friend was thoroughly weirded out. And yet she often resorts to {{Buffy Speak}} because she can't figure out how to break down what she means and talks way, way too fast. Cue much confusion.

This troper has a habit of it, I basically just say whatever word comes into my head first, and oftentimes that's a relatively obscure word with a precise meaning. I then usually have difficulty translating it into simpler terms if someone asks me about it, because I often find with many words like that, they have their own unique spin on the meaning which cannot be accurately described with smaller words, at least not concisely. I don't know where I get it from, nobody else in my family speaks like that, I assume it's due to reading a lot but my mother reads a lot as well and she doesn't do it.

This troper, a bookish nerd, has come to understand that Spock Speak is her natural mode of speech. Luckily, her family and friends aren't annoyed or intimidated by it, though she did get some hassle for it at school.

I myself am a natural English-speaker (American), yet for various reasons, do this intentionally in normal conversation. I am not certain, but it may have something to do with pride, considering that the vast majority of the people in my community lack either the vocabulary or grammar (or both) to speak in such a manner. It also may simply be that the image I get from self-proclaimed "gangsters" is so bad that I now find American slang virtually abhorrent, and I may not fully follow this in that I am more likely to use an expression from another culture or language, (and, occasionally, IN that language, even if it is the only phrase I know from it) if only to demonstrate that my habit of selectively-ignoring anything that sounds like "gangsta' talk" has made it as unintelligible to me as my own forced Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness is to the aforementioned speakers.

As you have no doubt observed I drop into an even more extreme form of it whilst I am writing or typing.

Also, I invariably use this if my meaning is in any way hostile. Perhaps this is a subconcious method of evading conflict, as this frequently results in the potential offendee having absolutely no idea they have been insulted. And they may insist that I speak English, which I (usually) am; in retrospect, I find that this allusion to language is identical to my general response to typical slang and a "gangster" dialect.

This troper has a sneaking suspicion that either she does this, or everyone around her is an idiot. Far too often she is told "You use big words!". For the sake of humanity as a whole, she hopes that it's the former.

If they are referring to anything under five syllables, it may well be the latter. Or, they may just not be native English speakers, perhaps?

ThisTroper spoke this way very exaggeratedly through most of middle school, right up until the long talk with her principal about her ego problems. While still fond of English and all its convoluted peculiarity, she is now able to communicate without always sounding like an ass. Mostly.

This Troper has a speech impediment that forces him to talk this way in order to be understandable.

This is also one of the reasons this troper tends to speak this way, the other is because he always tries his best to sound like the polite, educated person that he is. :)

This Troper has an odd combination of this and profanity. A usual sentence usually goes something like this "I found the movie to be dull, trite, and somewhat predictable. Also, the lead actor was a fucking retard"...It sounds more fluid in actual speech. I USED to be full on Spock Speak, refusing to swear and not understanding that such things where important. I've not fully figured it out, so I am stuck with an odd hybrid of the two.

Are we related?

This troper has the tendency to use Spock Speak often. Generally it is more during actual verbal conversations, however she does write all of her speeches in it. To many of her friends it has a comedic effect, which I do not understand. For example, she noticed one of her friends had just finished crying, and I uttered the following line resulting in giggles and slight applause "I see you have completed your weeping. This is good. Now proceed back to class." Oh yeah, and I'm a ninth grade student.

this troper finds she tends to slip into spock speak when she's feeling sick, her current theory is that illness causes the emotional centers of her brain to shut down for self preservation for some reason

This Troper has exhibited this since she was four. At eleven, one of her mother's friends nicknamed her "the eleven-year-old with the vocabulary of a thirty-seven year old." The occurrence of the word "like" in her normal speech patterns is far below that of any of her classmates, and she has often already learned half of the words on vocabulary lists, possibly even having used some in previous assignments or even everyday speech, although thankfully many of her relatives and friends also have inflated vocabularies and formal speech patterns. Among strangers, however, she tends to accumulate double-takes, incredulous glances, and assumptions that she is a graduate student rather than a high school student.

This troper only does this with her writing. In normal, everyday conversation she talks with slang and a overly noticeable Rhode Island accent along with sentences that just don't make sense. She is aware of this and often says, "I just can't make words happen!" after many other incoherent sentences. This is quite strange because her writing is quite good and doesn't even need massive amounts of editing to be coherent. This is most likely because she didn't learn to talk until she was 3 and while she did understand how words work she "just couldn't make them happen" in her own dialogues.

I naturally talk in this manner, and have ever since I was a CuteShotaroBoy, but taught myself not to as I got older. I end up bizarrely switching back and forth as some things are easier for me to translate into normal speech than others. I can go from Beast to Wolverine and back midsentence. Lately, I'm in more of a BeYourself phase, and don't like changing myself for people who would look down on me for ''knowing how English was meant to be used,'' but am so used to translating I forget not to. Trying to talk the way I used to feels affected, but trying to talk like other people is no different.