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>This reminds me of... I can't remember if it was the Supergirl story
>arc in Batman/Superman or the New 52 Supergirl reboot--some
>relatively modern comic in which Superman meets Kara for the first
>time, anyway. He knows she's from Krypton and talks to her in
>Kryptonese, but she can barely understand him, because he learned it
>from a book (or some kind of textual medium, anyway) and his
>pronunciation is horrific.

This, of course, prompts the mental image of Andrew Sachs playing Superman.

"I speak Kryptonese well. I learn it from a book!"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5035TY5RSpg