Topic on User talk:QuestionableSanity

Great idea on the Esoteric Trope Name category

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GethN7 (talkcontribs)
Labster (talkcontribs)
QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

I personally have never heard the word "Mook" outside of the context of TV Tropes. In any case, I think "Minion" or some other synonym is more easily recognizable.

But then, that's why I'm just adding these pages to categories, instead of outright changing them myself; so we can all come to an agreement on which names are or are not clear.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

I have to agree with Vorticity -- "Mook" dates back to at least 1930, although the sense in which we use it here is a bit more recent (and by no means created by TVT).

This is my main concern with the Esoteric Tropes Name category -- it's very easy for a user with a small reference pool to mistake an obscure but perfectly good English word (or a bit of industry jargon which is being appropriately used) for a neologism or unique usage coined by a troper. We need to watch these page assignments a bit more closely.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

Alright, I'll remove them.

But just because it's industry jargon doesn't make it any less esoteric. Face Heel Turn may be a popular phrase among the Professional Wrestling crowd, but it's nigh incomprehensible to anyone outside of it (at least, without reading the article.) And anyway, the Face Heel Turn series of trope names are very dyslexia-unfriendly.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

I don't know about that -- I've been seeing "face heel turn" and its inverse pop up in other written outlets (ones not informed by TVT or us) over the past couple years. It looks like it's mainstreaming itself without our help.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

I think I'm going to need to see some examples of that.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Next time I see it, I'll post a link here.