Don't Fear the Spiders
It is essentially a Swedish buffet; a mishmash of different type of food put together. "Smorgasbord" is also a slang term to describe things in that metaphorical fashion. I do realize not everyone is familiar with the term but we could always explain where the trope name come from in the article like we have done with so many others.
Keep it breezy!
I do realize not everyone is familiar with the term but we could always explain where the trope name come from in the article like we have done with so many others.
A trope article that has to explain its name often becomes a bad one.
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I agree, and that is why we're renaming the trope in the first place.
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Pall Mall, more people voted in favor of World of Weirdness that voted in total on Smorgasbord Setting.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Smorgasbord is a pretty well-established loanword in English, like 'schadenfreude' or 'cliché'. Not saying I like the name, but I don't think shooting it down because some people don't know what English words mean is a valid criticism.
The fact that it's a foreign loanword and an obscure metaphor is harder to justify. The real problem is the fact that someone who knows exactly what a smorgasbord is could look at that title and have no idea what it meant.
Smorgasbord is a pretty well-established loanword
Yes, and it doesn't really mean this.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Yes, it's well established as a word meaning "a lot of different types of food." It's almost never used to refer to something that isn't food. Using a well defined word to mean something it doesn't normally mean is terrible for clarity.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
One Winged Egret
Actually, I hardly ever hear it used to refer to food. The metaphorical definition is definitely very popular. Maybe this is a regional dialect thing.
This is all irrelevant though because it lost the vote.
edited 23rd Apr '13 11:48:40 AM by Clarste
Yes it did. Go rename the trope World of Weirdness so that we can get this closed.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
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And the move has been made (including the discussion move). Thank you for finishing up
edited 23rd Apr '13 12:09:16 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
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Here are the short definitions that tropers proposed in this thread for Planet Eris. To get an idea of where we should be going with Planet Eris, please vote for the ones you like, and against the ones you disagree with. These options should not be considered mutually exclusive.
Googling it up I find that it's a Swedish delicacy. I completely fail to see how that relates to the trope at hand, and I'm willing to bet that many users don't know what a "smorgas" is either.
Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!