This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Rename Spoon Speaker: From YKTTW
Eponymous Kid: And here's the part where I make good on my promise to sift through every last Spoon Speaker wick and change it... Ugh. Aw, there's just so many...
Okay, before the day is through By the end of tomorrow, it'll be done, though. The rename was my idea, I should do it myself.
Prfnoff: Good luck, Eponymous Kid. You're gonna need it.
Eponymous Kid: It can't be that hard. I mean, I've already changed about, oh... thirty something of them. It's just that I'm going aplhabetically, and I'm not even done with "E" yet...
I still really don't know how this got so far or why people excused it. Here's a rule: Imagine if the trope didn't exist, and someone put it on YKTTW. If it never would've launched with that title, it needs a new one.
Fire Walk: I'm changing some of these, but the related to is playing up now. So what's the proper way to rephrase eg. "Spoon Speaking Villain"? "Verbal Tic-afflicted villain"?
Eponymous Kid: I've just been using "Verbally Ticked villain", but that's... awful. If possible, I change it from "Spoon Speaking character" to "Character with a Verbal Tic", but sometimes that would interrupt the flow of t he sentence, and...
Bein Sane: Tic Talker? *dodges tomatoes*
Citizen: Tic Talker? I would have supported that in the rename YKTTW. We could always put it in as a redirect.
K.o.R: Done. Also I really like "Tic Talker" and "Verbally Ticked" as adjectival forms
Bein Sane: Good lord, I Was Just Joking! Frankly I'm ashamed that my brain is capable of coming up with such a horrid pun. >_>
Filby: Awesome jobspoon! I feel so vindicatedspoon. :D
SpiriTsunami: Ah, so that's how we ended up stuck with this? Because even having "Spoon Speaker" redirect here is confusing. The two have nothing in common, and seeing the title in the search, I just assumed that that was the article on Spoonerisms. I guess we don't have such an article, do we?
Scud East: I'm curious about the Japanese particle "sa" described in the text. What would "Wiki desu sa" mean?
Dentaku: It would indicate slight confusion, like: "This is a Wiki! Maybe." There also might be other interpretations though, depending on context. Translating to/from Japanese is almost an art form in that regard.
SenatorJ: There're some examples on this page that are less tics and more strange styles of speaking, like the G-Man from Halflife. Is that a separate trope, or does it belong here? If it belongs here, then I think the Orz need to go on this page. If it doesn't, then where does it go? I searched talk and speech and nothing really seemed to fit. Starfish Language doesn't quite cover what the G-Man does, and neither does this trope as written.
Proginoskes: I've removed the points naming "um" as the schwa and rebutting, if only to avoid having my babies come out sideways. Incidentally, the rebuttal described the schwa as "not or barely pronounced", and gave the silent 'e' at the end of French words as an example. Actually, the schwa is pronounced, but it isn't differentiated. "Bird", "herd", "word", and "curd" all rhyme because the vowel sound doesn't match the letter, instead being some weird ur-vowel. That is the schwa.
Bufuman: Would a pause in mid-sentence (or even mid-word) be considered a Verbal Tic? I threw one in there at the end of the anime folder, but I'm not certain if silence would qualify. If not, y'all should probably delete it.
Colonial1: I'm sorry about Harbinger. I just couldn't resist! Still, he does have a thing for "directness"...
