I see the Awesomeness.
I actually guessed the trope from the name. I think it's a good name.
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There's something that looks... off, between the trope title and the description. The title sounds too broad for the specifics of this trope.
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Agreed with Sean.
Also, I have no idea what makes the picture an example.
I see the Awesomeness.
I've got no idea on the image either. Though I'm notoriously thick on symbolism. I suppose Symbolism Research Failure might work.
Fight smart, not fair.
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The image is useless, except as a running joke. It's St. Basil's Cathedral, which, as several entries point out, is often used for images of the Kremlin, despite not being the same place. If it was, say, a picture of it from a game or a film, with the caption "The Kremlin" on it, it would be an example, but since it's just a photo of the cathedral, it doesn't serve any purpose.
It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk Bird
I see the Awesomeness.
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Thats what I thought too... Which is Instant Runes.
edited 8th Feb '11 6:09:21 AM by Raso
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I got it from the name, though it should probably be "symbolism" rather than "symbology" (though givent he content of the trope, I imagine that it was an intentional reference to Boondock Saints, where one character uses the non-word "symbology" and is corrected). That said, wasn't there an effort a while ago to rename all the "X Does Not Work That Way" and "X Research Failure" to something else? What ever happened with that?
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Its in the special efforts forum
the topic seems to have died though.
You know, I just think that the guy in ykttw just got Dan Browed by the word "symbology", on the other hand the only problem with the made up word is that it is a made up word. Bad if your book has "everything in this is real and well researched on it", not so bad if you just want to say "Study of symbols" and don't want to get into the semantics of what "semiotics" means *.
Symbology is a made-up field of science created by Dan Brown. This trope, as near as I can tell, doesn't have anything to do with Symbology, not as an imaginary field of science or the field of science that Dan Brown claims it is. Truth be told, however many times I read this page, I'm still not sure what it's about. I think it has something to do with specific cultural markers being used to denote huge swathes of entire societies, but I'm not completely positive. The name certainly doesn't help to alleviate my confusion, and the picture isn't helping either.
I've made a crowner
to rename this trope to something a little more intuitive to get the conversation started.
See you in the discussion pages.