"Impossibly mundane" makes my head hurt. Predictably Mundane Explanation? (Isn't that Agent Mulder?) Humorously Mundane Explanation? Unexpectedly Mundane Explanation?
That article is an example of how much worse articles suck when they don't do YKTTW. I fail.
Is that normal, for a YKTTW to be launched with a different title than it had in YKTTW?
edited 12th Nov '10 8:03:49 PM by rodneyAnonymous
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan."Impossibly mundane" makes my head hurt. Predictably Mundane Explanation? (Isn't that Agent Mulder?) Humorously Mundane Explanation? Unexpectedly Mundane Explanation? "
Again, it's not how mundane it is. It's the the mundane is less plausible than the fantastic.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.Implausibly Mundane Explanation?
edited 12th Nov '10 6:55:47 PM by sgrunt
This space for rent. Cost: your soul.Impossibly mundane sounds like it can't be the explanation because it's too run of the mill -it's impossibly mundane.
Since it says that the trope isn't simply that it's a mundane explanation that is discarded, but one that is discarded specifically because it is out of character why not simply reverse the word order. It's a Mundane Impossible Explanation.
Actually the key is the comparison between the mundane and the fantastic, and the fantastic makes more sense.
But Mundane Is Less Plausible Than The Fantastic is just too wordy, even for my long name tolerance.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.Is that normal, for a YKTTW to be launched with a different title than it had in YKTTW?
Yes, its very common for a title to change from it's original, although most people change the title while it's still in YKTTW before they launch it's not compulsory.
Edit: In my experience it's harder to get feedback on titles than examples.
edited 12th Nov '10 8:20:37 PM by GiantSpaceChinchilla
That and Comedy Tropes, since this is often a joke.
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It's not that it's too mundane. It's that it's too out of character.
edited 13th Nov '10 2:29:58 AM by DragonQuestZ
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.That's a very general statement, and I would say almost dishonest to claim most are like that (especially since we can just use Index Of Exact Trope Titles to disprove it). Plus you are acting as though most tropes are as nuanced as this (specific inclusions and exclusions), when that's only occasionally the case.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.- 1) Well yeah, it's a general statement. That's how it works as advice. "Don't put your finger in a light bulb socket" is also general advice.
- 2)I find the very thing to be missing from the Index Of Exact Trope Titles to be exactness. It seems like the very quality of exactness was misunderstood.
- 3) Yeah, they are mostly this complicated/simple but i think that this is just one that is more prone to the problem due to our vocabulary. If I could just make up a word for each important conceptual element of a trope (for example, imagine if we defined Xanatos to mean what it signifies in Xanatos Gambit) and then put several of them together I think most would end up about the same length. The problem is that without made up words, what we use have difficulty exactly dealing with those concepts.
- So we rely not on exactness but tropes (language tropes) and trickery. For instance, Impossible Mundane Explanation, I don't find exact but mentioning Mundane in the title, why it's almost the Law of Conservation of Detail in action- because we've mentioned Mundane, the quality of Mundane vs Extraordinary must be involved in some way.
Does anybody remember how one does numbered bullet points?
Ah Rodney has told me.
edited 13th Nov '10 3:53:35 AM by SomeSortOfTroper
I added Impossibly Mundane Explanation to Speculative Fiction Tropes, on the logic that it's the index Arbitrary Skepticism (which is definitely a related concept) is listed on.
edited 13th Nov '10 9:07:16 AM by MetaFour
If it makes any impact, my first assumption seeing the name was some kind of cover up. Like, some terrorists used magic to blow something up, and the feds covered it up with an Impossibly Mundane Explanation for the series of events.
So this trope is say, You call a computer tech to fix a computer that doesnt work so he takes it apart does all kinds of stuff to it then to only figure out that it was unplugged?
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!"I find the very thing to be missing from the Index Of Exact Trope Titles to be exactness."
The problem with that notion is that it's personal, and thus subjective. Besides, you're going to tell me that Fur Bikini isn't exact (at least without going into nitpicking)? This trope is something that can't have an exact title for reasons of its own, not because of your claim that exact titles aren't exact in general.
Also, I realized this is a Sister Trope to Something Only They Would Say and Something They Would Never Say. Now Something Mundand You Would Never Do is about long, so perhaps we could shorten it.
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Impossibly Mundane Explanation just got launched, but I wonder if we could tweak the name before it gets too large. The thing is that the title implies the impossibility of how mundane something is, not that the mundane explanation is less plausible than than the fantastic one.
Just worried about misuse, however that could come about.
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