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Brought up in the Trope Repair Shop, we need to take out the in-jokey Understatement references. People are using it to make any given example "witty" rather than actually using the trope.

It's is extremely excessive, by early calculations there is a 95% misuse rate in that regard. But don't worry, the actual number to fix seems to be less than 9,000 (about 8700).

{Note, as of 12:30 am September 19th, the tally is down to 4228; We've gotten over halfway.}

{Note 2: as of 8:37 pm September 29th, it's down to 2412}

{Note 3: as of 6:16 Am October 3, there are 1868 wicks remaining. If the original assessment of ~90% misuse turns out to be correct, there will be between 800 and 900 good wicks left when we're done.}

{Note 4: As of 2:50 pm, October 6th, there were 1079 wicks remaining.}

{Note 5: as of 8:58 am on October 10, there were 729 wicks remaining. The entire list had been scrubbed. 111 of that 729 are those that a software glitch counts even though the page it's supposedly on no longer exists.}

{Note 6: Fast Eddie has modified the wick counter so that it no longer counts the dead namespaces "JBM" or "Crowning *". This killed off 75 of the phantom wicks remaining, for a final tally of 655 good wicks remaining of 8700+ original wicks}

Cleared Punctuated titles starting with:

  • Completed!!

Cleared unpunctuated titles starting with:

  • A-Z!

edited 21st Oct '11 8:54:57 AM by Madrugada

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#326: Nov 24th 2021 at 6:03:06 AM

[up]This may sound stupid, but how are the jokes misuse? Like, show me an example of a misused understatement and a non-misused understatement.

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#327: Nov 24th 2021 at 6:11:11 AM

They're misuse because Understatement is a trope, and it's meant to be used for understatement in a narrative, not just potholed willy-nilly every time someone thinks it'd be funny

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#328: Nov 24th 2021 at 3:02:30 PM

[up]I guess that makes sense. Uptight, but makes sense.

For our sanity, let's just leave it at that.

Edited by Spidey on Nov 24th 2021 at 6:04:42 AM

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#329: Nov 24th 2021 at 11:22:12 PM

In addition, it's listed as In-Universe Examples Only, which means that only examples pointed out in the work itself can count.

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#330: Nov 25th 2021 at 12:46:53 PM

[up]That actually explains the reason why some examples are being deleted.

"Unite GUN/BAZOOKA/LAUNCHER/TANK!"
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#331: Apr 3rd 2022 at 3:01:45 AM

Because there technically was a TRS way back when, I added this to TRS Wick Cleaning.

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