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* The ''[[Jargon File]]'' has an [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.html extensive entry] on the subject that documents not just American and British usage but terms used by programmers from continental Europe and New Zealand. |
* The ''[[Jargon File]]'' has an [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.html extensive entry] on the subject that documents not just American and British usage but terms used by programmers from continental Europe and New Zealand. |
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* The Russian FIDO community Kaschenko came up with "Shooshpanchik", which was a meme spontaneously evolved from a taunt to one user (who in the end apparently was proud of it). Shooshpanchik is a subset of living creatures, but does not have a more specific meaning. Typically it was used to mutate jokes (e.g. "Hedgehog is an ancient and chthonic animal" could be transformed into "Shooshpanchik is an ancient and metasyntactic animal") or as a substitute "classification" for something made up (one short scene from ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels was summarized as "Two shooshpanchiks graze near the spaceship. Male one and female one. [[ |
* The Russian FIDO community Kaschenko came up with "Shooshpanchik", which was a meme spontaneously evolved from a taunt to one user (who in the end apparently was proud of it). Shooshpanchik is a subset of living creatures, but does not have a more specific meaning. Typically it was used to mutate jokes (e.g. "Hedgehog is an ancient and chthonic animal" could be transformed into "Shooshpanchik is an ancient and metasyntactic animal") or as a substitute "classification" for something made up (one short scene from ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels was summarized as "Two shooshpanchiks graze near the spaceship. Male one and female one. [[Faux Symbolism|They symbolize.]]"). |
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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://web.archive.org/web/20210320030021/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). |
** 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://web.archive.org/web/20210320030021/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). |
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* 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]]. |
* 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]]. |
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