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#1: Mar 10th 2018 at 5:19:23 PM

I can't tell whether this is "shouting 'to the <place>!' dramatically" or "naming scheme where you stick a relevant adjective onto the thing's name".

The description, examples, and even the title are all ambiguous and refer directly to both.

We probably need to hard split this into two tropes, neither of which is titled "To the Batnoun!".

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#2: Mar 19th 2018 at 1:56:38 PM

I thought it was about a Stock Shout-Out to Batman. Both of the definitions you list sound much too broad for that. Actually, the first definition might fit mine, and the examples seem to fit said definition, but not the description, or at least towards the end of it.

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#3: Aug 19th 2018 at 1:08:59 AM

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#4: Aug 19th 2018 at 5:25:08 AM

If you read the description, it's clearly talking only about "that trope where you shout 'to the [place]!' dramatically". If we scrubbed all the "that trope where you name all your stuff 'relevant-adjective-thing'" from the description and examples... it'd still be in the title.

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#5: Aug 20th 2018 at 8:58:36 PM

We probably need to hard split this into two tropes, neither of which is titled "To the Batnoun!".
eh, probably three (The third being Shout-Out & ReferencedBy.Batman). "One More River" by James Reyn is clearly only doing a Shout-Out, not declaring a destination dramatically or using Hyperaffixation.

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#6: Aug 21st 2018 at 5:25:07 AM

Oh, we already have Hyperaffixation? That simplifies things.

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DEIDATVM from East Fishkill, New York Since: Dec, 2016
#7: Aug 21st 2018 at 6:38:17 AM

So in that case, redefine this as only shouting a destination dramatically, and any examples more appropriate for Hyperaffixation would be moved to that page?

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#8: Aug 21st 2018 at 9:11:20 AM

[up] Sounds good.

Hyperaffixation seems to be not thriving, however. Moving the page quote and some examples from To The Bat Noun would help, but the name is also a little clunky...

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#9: Sep 20th 2018 at 10:44:07 PM

Resetting clock.

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#10: Sep 24th 2018 at 10:46:43 PM

Clock is up; closing for inactivity/lack of consensus. No action is to be taken on the basis of this thread.

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