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BradyLady Since: May, 2012
2013-12-05 22:42:47

I'd like to bump now, hoping the guy with the exclamation point fetish is through, and this can get an answer.

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2013-12-05 23:25:09

That description seems like Unpronounceable Name to me.

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crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2013-12-06 12:44:56

No, Sioux is pronounced the same as Sue in most American English dialects. The example would be a subversion of the trope, because the audience is expected to think of it as a girl's name (and reference the Johnny Cash song), because of the lampshade, but the name itself isn't a Gender Bender Name.

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BradyLady Since: May, 2012
2013-12-06 19:40:11

Subversion of specifically the Gender-Blender Name trope, you mean? Yeah, I think I see. It also ties into another question I asked yesterday, the difference between "subvert" and "invert." I'm having trouble comprehending it, but the light is coming on. Inverting a trope means playing it backwards, while subverting it means setting up for it but not delivering it. I don't know how to "invert" a unisex name, but here the family was expecting a boy named Sue and didn't get one, so that's subversion. Thanks for the help.

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