Reciting
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Both words in one sentence
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The catch is, he doesn't speak English and memorized those words phonetically, so when Scott asks a question, he can't answer, but continues reciting more unrelated English, which gets Scott angry.
Source: My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels - Robo Speak: Most of the early robots have a metallic, harsh voice which sounds like they are "reciting by rote".
Source: Literature / I, Robot -
Rainbow Dash calls them out on it (with a pretty thorough Take That to Swift's lyrics), but later ends up playing it even straighter than they did when she starts reciting the lyrics of "Speak Now" to Derpy.
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