Almost always, your ship is falling apart, and the aliens speak incomprehensible gobbledygook.
In the nineteen-sixties, my father, having clambered through the ranks of a Japanese multinational company (it was a folie à deux; he spoke incomprehensible English, and his managers didn't understand any), had built himself a sizable two-story house, a far step from the two-room flat in Calcutta that he had shared with his four brothers and his mother after Partition.
They live in faraway places, come from obscure cultures, speak incomprehensible languages, have disreputable comorbid disease, or exhibit antisocial behavior.
A few articles, though, try to shoehorn so much in that they speak in incomprehensible shorthand, while others resort to what is essentially a list format.
Back in '33, when he spoke an incomprehensible jargon, the fact that he was sure when everyone else was uncertain got him a loyal following.
In this manner Chinese logographs form a common medium of communication for a vast country because they can be read by people who speak mutually incomprehensible dialects or languages.
In Le Monde, Philippe Marlière wrote, "Not only do the lead characters speak an incomprehensible patois, but they're also ugly and obese, inactive or lazy, and they show, of course, a taste for the bottle".
Strauss says the government's refusal to let Miller speak is incomprehensible.
As Eberhart points out, to regular folk in an old country, hunters speak an incomprehensible language.
It was one of the most wonderful and unique starts to an interview ever: Within a minute, Willem was speaking in the incomprehensible babble of the Looney Tunes Tasmanian Devil.
