Metasyntactic Variable: Difference between revisions

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** This spawned derivatives, such as "shushpanzer" (шушпанцер), which means more or less "[https://shushpanzer-ru.livejournal.com/ armored vehicle that looks weird or improvised and obviously doesn't fit well into classifications]", "shushpancycle" ("[https://shushpanzer-ru.livejournal.com/tag/%D1%88%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BB шушпанцикл]", the same for motorcycles and other small wheeled vehicles) and "shushpangewehr" ("[https://mpopenker.livejournal.com/tag/%D1%88%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F шушпангевер]", the same for firearms, especially long arms).
* All The Tropes (and [[TV Tropes]] before us) has a history of using the word "trope" as a Metasyntactic Variable in trope names, such as [[The Trope Kid]], [[Disney Owns This Trope]] and [[The Von Trope Family]]. TVT began discouraging this practice long before the fork leading to ATT took place, and many such names were later replaced, but we still have a dozen or so lurking about, and have even added a couple of our own, such as [[Tropacabana]].
** We also have the trope [[Foo Fu]], where "Foo" is the classic programmer's Metasyntactic Variable, standing for any mundane item or skill which could be used in some awesome, often combat-related, way.
 
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