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the problem here is that the only way the word \\\"trope\\\" is used away from this site and its culture is as a synonym of \\\"figure of speech\\\" or as a synonym of \\\"cliché.\\\" that\\\'s it. full stop. and writing a lengthy, snarky article declaring otherwise does nothing at all to change this fact. and it is a fact. dictionaries print how a word is used and this word is just not reported as being used in this way in ANY major mainstream English dictionary on the planet. and there are more than the big two, but those oft mentioned two don\\\'t do it, either.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being experienced.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that fatuous quote from that fatuous source is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear that cry ... and groan in wretched anticipation.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being experienced.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that fatuous quote from that fatuous source is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear that cry ... and groan in wretched anticipation.
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the problem here is that the only way the word \
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the problem here is that the only way the word \\\"trope\\\" is used away from this site and its culture is as a synonym of \\\"figure of speech\\\" or as a synonym of \\\"cliché.\\\" that\\\'s it. full stop. and writing a lengthy, snarky article declaring otherwise does nothing at all to change this fact. and it is a fact. dictionaries print how a word is used and this word is just not reported as being used in this way in ANY major mainstream English dictionary on the planet. and there are more than the big two, but those oft mentioned two don\\\'t do it, either.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being experienced.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that fatuous quote from that fatuous source is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear that cry ... and just yawn.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being experienced.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that fatuous quote from that fatuous source is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear that cry ... and just yawn.
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the problem here is that the only way the word \
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the problem here is that the only way the word \\\"trope\\\" is used away from this site and its culture is as a synonym of \\\"figure of speech\\\" or as a synonym of \\\"cliché.\\\" that\\\'s it. full stop. and writing a lengthy, snarky article declaring otherwise does nothing at all to change this fact. and it is a fact. dictionaries print how a word is used and this word is just not reported as being used in this way in ANY major mainstream English dictionary on the planet. and there are more than the big two, but those oft mentioned two don\\\'t do it, either.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being experienced.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that fatuous quote from that fatuous source is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being experienced.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that fatuous quote from that fatuous source is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
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the problem here is that the only way the word \
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the problem here is that the only way the word \\\"trope\\\" is used away from this site and its culture is as a synonym of \\\"figure of speech\\\" or as a synonym of \\\"cliché.\\\" that\\\'s it. full stop. and writing a lengthy, snarky article declaring otherwise does nothing at all to change this fact. and it is a fact. dictionaries print how a word is used and this word is just not reported as being used in this way in ANY major mainstream English dictionary on the planet. and there are more than the big two, but those oft mentioned two don\\\'t do it, either.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being experienced.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that fatuous quote from its fatuous source is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being experienced.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that fatuous quote from its fatuous source is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
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the problem here is that the only way the word \
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the problem here is that the only way the word \\\"trope\\\" is used away from this site and its culture is as a synonym of \\\"figure of speech\\\" or as a synonym of \\\"cliché.\\\" that\\\'s it. full stop. and writing a lengthy, snarky article declaring otherwise does nothing at all to change this fact. and it is a fact. dictionaries print how a word is used and this word is just not reported as being used in this way in ANY major mainstream English dictionary on the planet. and there are more than the big two, but those oft mentioned two don\\\'t do it, either.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being experienced.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that errant quote from its errant source is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being experienced.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that errant quote from its errant source is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
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the problem here is that the only way the word \
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the problem here is that the only way the word \\\"trope\\\" is used away from this site and its culture is as a synonym of \\\"figure of speech\\\" or as a synonym of \\\"cliché.\\\" that\\\'s it. full stop. and writing a lengthy, snarky article declaring otherwise does nothing at all to change this fact. and it is a fact. dictionaries print how a word is used and this word is just not reported as being used in this way in ANY major mainstream English dictionary on the planet. and there are more than the big two, but those oft mentioned two don\\\'t do it, either.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being experienced.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being experienced.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
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the problem here is that the only way the word \
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the problem here is that the only way the word \\\"trope\\\" is used away from this site and its culture is as a synonym of \\\"figure of speech\\\" or as a synonym of \\\"cliché.\\\" that\\\'s it. full stop. and writing a lengthy, snarky article declaring otherwise does nothing at all to change this fact. and it is a fact. dictionaries print how a word is used and this word is just not reported as being used in this way in ANY major mainstream English dictionary on the planet. and there are more than the big two, but those oft mentioned two don\\\'t do it, either.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. by insisting on this particular word\\\'s idiosyncratic interpretation--an interpretation whose origin is known only to its creators without a single citation to be found--this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
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the problem here is that the only way the word \
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the problem here is that the only way the word \\\"trope\\\" is used away from this site and its culture is as a synonym of \\\"figure of speech\\\" or as a synonym of \\\"cliché.\\\" that\\\'s it. full stop. and writing a lengthy, snarky article declaring otherwise does nothing at all to change this fact. and it is a fact. dictionaries print how a word is used and this word is just not reported as being used in this way in ANY major mainstream English dictionary on the planet. and there are more than the big two, but those oft mentioned two don\\\'t do it, either.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
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the problem here is that the only way the word \\\"trope\\\" is used away from this site and its culture is as a synonym of \\\"figure of speech\\\" or as a synonym of \\\"cliché.\\\" that\\\'s it. full stop. and writing a lengthy, snarky article declaring otherwise does nothing at all to change this fact. and it is a fact. dictionaries print how a word is used and this word is just not reported as being used in this way in ANY major mainstream English dictionary on the planet. and there are more than two, but those oft mentioned two don\\\'t do it, either.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
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the problem here is that the only way the word \
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the problem here is that the only way the word \\\"trope\\\" is used away from this site and its culture is as a synonym for \\\"figure of speech\\\" or as a synonym of \\\"cliché.\\\" that\\\'s it. full stop. and writing a lengthy, snarky article declaring otherwise does nothing at all to change this fact. and it is a fact. dictionaries print how a word is used and this word is just not reported as being used in this way in ANY major mainstream English dictionary on the planet. and there are more than two, but those oft mentioned two don\\\'t do it, either.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
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the problem here is that the only way the word \
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the problem here is that the only way the word \\\"trope\\\" is used away from this site and its culture is as a synonym for \\\"figure of speech\\\" or \\\"cliché.\\\" that\\\'s it. full stop. and writing a lengthy, snarky article declaring otherwise does nothing at all to change this fact. and it is a fact. dictionaries print how a word is used and this word is just not reported as being used in this way in ANY major mainstream English dictionary on the planet. and there are more than two, but those oft mentioned two don\\\'t do it, either.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. no meaningful communication is possible without it. this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
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the problem here is that the only way the word \
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the problem here is that the only way the word \\\"trope\\\" is used away from this site and its culture is as a synonym for \\\"figure of speech\\\" or \\\"cliché.\\\" that\\\'s it. full stop. and writing a lengthy, snarky article declaring otherwise does nothing at all to change this fact. and it is a fact. dictionaries print how a word is used and this word is just not reported as being used in this way in ANY major mainstream English dictionary on the planet. and there are more than two, but those oft mentioned two don\\\'t do it, either.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that biblical quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
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the problem here is that the only way the word \
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the problem here is that the only way the word \\\"trope\\\" is used away from this site and its culture is as a synonym for \\\"figure of speech\\\" or \\\"cliché.\\\" that\\\'s it. full stop. and writing a lengthy, snarky article declaring otherwise does nothing at all to change this fact. and it is a fact. dictionaries print how a word is used and this word is just not reported as being used in this way in ANY major mainstream English dictionary on the planet. and there are more than two, but those oft mentioned two don\\\'t do it, either.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
words matter. shared understanding of meaning is really important. this site in no way serves that shared understanding, preferring instead to flippantly make declarations based on faulty understanding itself--or maybe, as seems just as likely, it\\\'s yet another example of the arrogance of internet anonymity inspiring easily countervailed grand statements of post-adolescent sophistry.
what this site has done is conflate \\\"figure of speech\\\" with \\\"element of storytelling.\\\" not the same thing at all. labeling something a \\\"trope\\\" here means calling something an \\\"element of storytelling\\\" and this is simply false. this is simply not common parlance in any way. this site\\\'s culture is in no way shifting the meaning such that at some future date it becomes the norm and lands in a serious dictionary.
this all simply means that tropes are bad and will always be bad and are never a good idea to deploy and never improve a work and always push a reader out of a work and invariably ruin a good time for anyone of any sophistication with whatever art is being pursued.
and, yes, obviously, by the dictionary definition, anyone anywhere at anytime may produce a \\\"tropeless tale\\\" free of cliches and free of figures of speech and even free of metaphoric language, for that matter.
there is nothing new under the sun? children, there is ONLY new under the sun, across from the sun, around the sun ... notions once impossible until NEW notions arrived as they always do as we always learn.
that quote is the last refuge of the untalented. \\\"It\\\'s tried and true!\\\" is that contingent\\\'s rallying cry.
the rest of us hear it ... and just yawn.
