Not Thriving: Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation

Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation. Seven and four. What to do.

The title is a good example of why pages should Always Avoid Alliteration.

Only when it's painfully forced and obfuscates the trope. Like in this case.

This trope maybe a duplicate with The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything or What, Exactly, Is His Job?.

edited 5th Jun '12 12:50:31 AM by spacemarine50

Second one. I'm not sure I see the difference.

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything somewhat different, in that they don't actually do their supposed job, but said job is known.

Yes, this appears to be redundant.

Cut then?

Well, move all relevant examples, then cut, if you want to be specific.

Though I'd prefer getting a few more opinions first.

If you look closely, the descriptions are describing two different tropes. What, Exactly, Is His Job? is supposed to be "there is one character whose function (in terms of his internal purpose within the cast) is a bit fuzzy." while Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation is about a person's actual occupation.

But since they're both being used exactly the same way, may as well merge.

Yeah, I noticed that. I just don't think the difference is important. They're both playing a the lack of description of a character's job for funnies. The only difference is just how much of the description is lacking.

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I think that distinction is too fine to bother with. I try to avoid being typecast as lumper or splitter, but in this case, I think I have to come down on the side of the lumpers. Job vs. role is simply not a significant difference.

Merge.

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