You know what's a new word that everyone seems to be using all of a sudden? Trope
I, too, am guilty of this recent faddish overuse.
It's what 'awesome' was to 1981. Or 'paradigm' to 1991.
Could it be? This word I keep using? It doesn't mean what I think it means?
Inconceivable!
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That's a new one for me. How about using in context? I have no idea what it may mean.
The Westerner taking up with the noble savages and becoming their leader like in Avatar, Dances with Wolves, Ferngulley, Last Samurai, Pocohantas, and A Man Called Horse is a trope.
Unobtanium is a SciFi trope, aka "Hand Waving" Used in many movies and books.
Which 3 guns do you take if you had to go back in time to 1800 is a gunnie trope, maybe.
In Star Trek, the Red Shirt is a trope.
Shotgun blast that knock you off your feet, back 12 feet, and through a plate glass window is a trope.
Ooo, check out THIS:
TV Tropes
That's weaponized wiki right there. Forget losing hours; you'll ask what WEEK it is when you're done with a wander. Assuming you didn't kill yourself with the ROFLMAO
"Trope" is what people mean when they say "meme."
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