che_gilson

I hate new words replacing already servicable words that have been in place fore AGES, except everyone acts like the new word somehow describes A NEW IDEA, when infact it's an old idea which already HAS a word to describe it. Case in point TROPE. My latest pet peeve- have you heard of a trope? It's completely retarded, they-the internet deciders of cool and lingo- have unearthed some ancient word and now using it to describe 'conventions' in writng- oh, and it's also DISTINGUISHED from a cliche. The retarded part is #1-convention is a perfectly good word that is already in use and #2-most conventions are cliche, AND therefore BY DEFINITION ARE TROPES. Which is actually IN the definition of trope as seen below...

trope

Pronunciation:

\ˈtrōp\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Latin tropus, from Greek tropos turn, way, manner, style, trope, from trepein to turn

Date:

1533

Now how on earth did this start describing typical plot conventions used in books and TV? And who the fuck dusted this one off? Someone who I think very obviously wants to show off how bloody smart they think they because THEY read the dictionary.
 

I am a pretty smart person of decent education and I have never heard the word 'trope' until LAST WEEK when I saw it twice. Here is the link to tvTropes.whatever http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage  And as described- tropes are CONVENTIONS. Apparently they just can't be bothered to type a word as long as convention.  But that still doesn't explain why they can't be bothered to type the word cliche.