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I agree. I actually came here to bring this up, and I\'m glad I\'m not the only person who\'s noticed this. If the examples given are any indication, ANY alien name can qualify for this trope, whether the names are \
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I agree. I actually came here to bring this up, and I\\\'m glad I\\\'m not the only person who\\\'s noticed this. If the examples given are any indication, ANY alien name can qualify for this trope, whether the names are \\\"boring and similar\\\" or not. Many of the examples seem like aversions to me. I keep reading them and thinking, \\\"This is ridiculous! If \\\'\\\'all of these\\\'\\\' qualify, \\\'\\\'anything\\\'\\\' can qualify! Apparently there\\\'s no such thing as a good, original, realistic alien name! Either it\\\'s too human-sounding or it\\\'s too alien-sounding! Or it\\\'s too short, or it\\\'s too long! Or it\\\'s too hard to pronounce, or it\\\'s too easy to pronounce! What is going on here???\\\" I feel like I\\\'m in the Twilight Zone!
The description itself makes it clear what constitutes playing the trope straight, at least at first, but then it seems to veer off the point a bit, and then doesn\\\'t tell us what would constitute an aversion. That might be helpful.
EDIT: Also, the description doesn\\\'t make it clear if the part of the trope about feminine names and masculine names even applies if the aliens in question are completely genderless and sexless. I would think it wouldn\\\'t count – because then the distinction would be meaningless, and would only be relevant to humans, who would automatically associate the names they heard with maleness or femaleness.
The description itself makes it clear what constitutes playing the trope straight, at least at first, but then it seems to veer off the point a bit, and then doesn\\\'t tell us what would constitute an aversion. That might be helpful.
EDIT: Also, the description doesn\\\'t make it clear if the part of the trope about feminine names and masculine names even applies if the aliens in question are completely genderless and sexless. I would think it wouldn\\\'t count – because then the distinction would be meaningless, and would only be relevant to humans, who would automatically associate the names they heard with maleness or femaleness.
