communicating with someone who speaks a different language theme
Two characters neither of whom understands the other's language, try to communicate with each other.
18 total · 1 choice · 7 major · 10 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tng5x02 | choice | Picard and Dathon spoke different languages but had to find a way to communicate in order to defeat the electromagnetic beast. |
| as1985e1x07 | major | The high school friends struggled to communicate with the visiting space aliens who spoke their own alien language. |
| ent2x13 | major | Tucker and Zho'Kaan had to find a way of communicating to survive in spite of not speaking a common language. |
| movie: Lost in Translation (2003) | major | the film returned to the problem of language time and again |
| movie: The Lady Vanishes | major | It was a recurring theme that the various British protagonists had trouble making themselves understood by the central Europeans among whom they journeyed. |
| movie: The Lady Vanishes (1938) | major | there were recurring instances of Anglophones trying to communicate with continentals who, outrageously, did not understand English |
| play: Henry V (1599) | major | two French ladies were seen to practice their English after Henry V's success at Harfleur; Ancient Pistol had a tortured conversation with a French prisoner regarding ransom; Henry V proposed to a poorly comprehending but rather bemused Catherine of Valois |
| tz1959e3x01 | major | The man (an English speaker) and the woman (a Russian speaker) struggled to communicate with each other. |
| ent1x09 | minor | Archer's universal translator broke down and he was unable to communicate with Riaan. |
| ent2x11 | minor | Tucker and Princess Kaitaama were unable to understand one another because of a language barrier until he got his universal translator working. |