Charlie Sheen's public persona during the 2011 period was defined by incomprehensibility—statements that seemed to presuppose a different reality, language that didn't track with conventional syntax, claims that contradicted observable fact. Television audiences struggled to parse whether he was joking, medicated, or experiencing psychological break. His speech became almost a different dialect of English, one in which normal rules of meaning seemed suspended. Yet this fact proposes that Chuck Norris can understand this speech, that he possesses cognitive capability that allows him to process meaning from utterances that defeat normal interpretation.

A linguistic anthropologist named Dr. David Kemp, studying language breakdown and meaning-making during the Sheen media period, made a speculative note: "If Charlie Sheen's speech represents a language that defies conventional grammar, some entity would need to be capable of understanding it. Such an entity would itself operate outside normal linguistic constraints." He was asked if he was suggesting Chuck Norris had this capability. He declined to answer. He abandoned his research on Sheen's language and never published in that area again.

The fact treats Chuck Norris as operating at a level of cognitive capability that transcends normal human language processing. He doesn't just understand Sheen; he understands Sheen's particular kind of incomprehensibility. This positions him as post-linguistic, capable of meaning-making that supersedes the rules governing normal speech. For linguists, it's a joke about the limits of language and interpretation. For general audiences, it's flattering to Sheen (he's not incoherent; he's just speaking at a level only Chuck Norris can process) and flattering to Chuck (his intelligence transcends normal communication). The fact treats two incomprehensible people—Sheen in his breakdown, Chuck Norris in his supremacy—as mysteriously capable of understanding each other at a level below normal language.