should we maybe note that Impeach The Goddamn President is an alternate name for President Evil in the page quote's note?
Wereboar
The passage 'The most evident symptom of this is the word "trope" itself, which is not commonly used outside of this site' does not belong here. 'Speaking Tropinese' means using a specific phrases that have very precise meaning, and thus 'Tropinese' can be construe as a type of an idiolect. The term 'trope' is not popular because it is a scientific term limited to the field of narrative art theory (literature, theater, cinema etc.). So, this word is pretty much known by anyone with any high school education, although tend to be quickly forgotten.
Sure, many languages do not have an equivalent of the word 'trope' but they usually adopt the loanword 'trope', usually from Latin.
Hello world!
Could we please have a little list for maybe, most commonly used tropes and then the 'real world' phrases to describe them? Please? So my English teacher can stop looking at me weird.
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I had to re-do my summer english homework because i analyzed a novel with tropes. And my teacher isn't a troper.
Maybe I'm the one who's nuts
This Bohemian vocabulary is the hell of rhetoric and the paradise of neologism ~ Henri Murger
(only because we don't have a quotes page)
Does anyone think it would be a good idea for a "TV Tropes will enrich your vocabulary" page (like 'TV tropes will ruin your life' has an '...enrich your life' page). For example I've used "Poe's Law" to explain that Spinal Tap were a parody to people who hadn't seen the film.
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Out of sheer perversity, I move that we immediately find tropes for all the bogus trope names in the Something Awful.com quote. They're too good not to use.
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I second that, particulary Germany Fits in My Pocket. Alternate name for Hammerspace perhaps?
(Pardon me, I edited to repair the formatting)
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Since this page has was made, Troupe is now #22998 Ahead of Brightened, but behind Thresholds.
Do you think the page is worth updating with this information? (PS, what do you want to bet that the reason for the large increase in its # is because of TV troupes?
This site's use of postmodern/post-structuralist analytic vocabulary (e.g. "deconstruction", and "subversion") is entirely consistent with contemporary usage. While these terms originated in formal literary criticism, they are now applied with similar meanings (essentially the ones used here) in any postmodern analysis of many disciplines; this is not particularly surprising if one agrees with the postmodern position that cultural discourse(s) is(are) the site(s) of the production of meaning and understanding, with literary analysis being a formalized analysis of the sub-set of that discourse that is consciously recognized as such.
As for "trope", I've also seen this meaning in extensive usage in contemporary art-analysis (my specific focus is literature, but my classes tend to incorporate other forms of "texts" as well e.g. film, television, etc.). In fact, I've even seen "cultural tropes" described in sociological and anthropological material, used as an unmarked replacement for "conventions" (essentially, the term describes the super-set of "norms", to allow for description of a common set of behaviors/practices that are not normative; all norms are tropes, but not all tropes are norms). This is not to be confused with memes, which describe thoughts, beliefs, and knowledge.
I think the mea culpa can probably be removed, or potentially struck-through and amended with a phrase proclaiming how THIS SITE'S usages have pervaded the culture. :-P
OK, but hear me out...
Cybernetic Allen Key - A device which looks all futuristic and technological, but actually does relatively nothing more than a wrench or screwdriver.
Fake Thomas Jefferson - A time traveler who travels to stand in for some historical figure to do some important historic thing, like a speech or law or something or other. (Been There, Shaped History, sort of)
Impeach The Goddamn President - President Evil
Combing His Hair - not sure
Speaking Fluent Cat - already exists
Shirtless And Hungry - Characters who are stranded without food or shelter, often after a few days, sometimes emerge from their place of isolation (cave, island, etc) without their shirt on (or something like that, idrk).
Fire Island Swirlie - idk
The Alien Is Not An Alien - A human who disguises themself as a member of an alien species is revealed to just be a human.
Germany Fits In My Pocket - When someone pulls a bunch of overly large weapons (or even vehicles) from a seemingly small pocket.
Keep in mind, I am VERY new here, constructive criticism is allowed.
Thoughts?
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