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Author: GilvaLepista

Apr 25th 2013 at 11:54:45 AM

Perhaps we should call it "The Burly Detective Syndrome," since part of what makes it so harrowing to read is the constant repetition of "the."

I like "The Burly Detective" though, because in order to avoid ever using the same tag twice the author will end up using increasingly insane adjectives, often incorrectly.

"Said the Adjective Noun" also works. It gets the message across succinctly, and would be much easier to find in search engines. When first looking to see if this trope already existed, searching for "noun" and other various variations turned up nothing, although this problem would be solved if the page were published and linked with Said Bookism and Bad Writing.

My personal favorites are the hyphenated ones. For example, "he turned to the strawberry-loving male" had me almost in tears because it was so ridiculous; the fact that the boy liked strawberries was completely irrelevant and made no sense in context. That same story also contained (multiple times) the delightful line, "the eleven-year-old male."