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* Fred Saberhagen's Literature/EmpireOfTheEast trilogy and his distant sequel series, the Literature/BookOfSwords, are both guilty of this to a somewhat ridiculous degree. Granted that they are set 50,000 years in the future and the English language has been lost (writing in English is described as unintelligible to the characters); is it really neccesary to call horses "riding-beasts" and mules "load-beasts"? Not to mention "milk-beasts" and "wool-beasts". Yet "potatoes" still are a named vegetable.
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* Fred Saberhagen's Literature/EmpireOfTheEast trilogy and his distant sequel series, the Literature/BookOfSwords, are both guilty of this to a somewhat ridiculous degree. Granted that they are set 50,000 years in the future and the English language has been lost (writing in English is described as unintelligible to the characters); is it really neccesary to call horses "riding-beasts" and mules "load-beasts"? Not to mention "milk-beasts" and "wool-beasts". Yet birds are birds, dragons are dragons, and "potatoes" are still are a named vegetable.vegetable. Also confusingly subverted when we are introduced to the "war-beast", apparently some new type of lion or puma hybrid which can also be ridden.
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** There is some suggestion that Pipe-weed may in fact be Hashish rather than Tobacco, though this explanation is relegated largely to {{Fanon}}.
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*** Though this has been {{Jossed}} by Tolkien's writings published in {{The Unfinished Tales}}.
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** There is some suggestion that Pipe-weed may in fact be Hashish rather than Tobacco, though this explanation is relegated largely to {{Fanon}}.
*** Though{{Fanon}}, though this has been {{Jossed}} by Tolkien's writings published in {{The Unfinished Tales}}.
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** And of course rather than calling Muggles "humans" they call them... well 'Muggles.'
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*** In this case an important distinction, because wizards and Muggles are both human and therefore some word needs to exist to tell them apart.
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*** Indeed, Star Wars has a least a little more justification than Franchise/StarTrek in using this trope when it comes to metaphors. At least Star Wars is meant to be in its own 'verse, with no canon ties to Earth. Whereas Star Trek is meant to be our own Earth (pretty much, anyway), just centuries into the future.
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** Those large-mawed reptilian creatures you find near water aren't crocodiles, they're crocolisks. And those big pincer'd and stinger'd exoskeletal creatures aren't scorpions, they're scorpids.
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** Those large-mawed reptilian creatures you find near water aren't crocodiles, they're crocolisks. And those big pincer'd and stinger'd exoskeletal creatures aren't scorpions, they're scorpids.
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** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' rats are known as Skeevers. This is a tad bit odd, since all the previous games had rats called rats.
*** It goes beyond odd when you consider that "skeevers" are the only animals (or indeed, enemies) in the entire game to get this treatment -- Draugr are something thoroughly different from the zombies and skeletons of previous titles, and though Horkers are essentially walrus, they've had that name since ''Morrowind''. Beyond that, wolves are wolves, bears are bears, and mammoths are even mammoths.
*** Skeevers in the game are even described as "rat-like", and are much larger then rats. Since Skyrim has other prehistoric animals, maybe the skeevers are supposed to be some kind of early mammaliaformes.
*** Draugr are, in fact, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr draugr]].
*** It goes beyond odd when you consider that "skeevers" are the only animals (or indeed, enemies) in the entire game to get this treatment -- Draugr are something thoroughly different from the zombies and skeletons of previous titles, and though Horkers are essentially walrus, they've had that name since ''Morrowind''. Beyond that, wolves are wolves, bears are bears, and mammoths are even mammoths.
*** Skeevers in the game are even described as "rat-like", and are much larger then rats. Since Skyrim has other prehistoric animals, maybe the skeevers are supposed to be some kind of early mammaliaformes.
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** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' rats are known as Skeevers. This is a tad bit odd, since all the previous games had rats called rats.
***rats. It goes beyond odd when you consider that "skeevers" are the only animals (or indeed, enemies) in the entire game to get this treatment -- Draugr are something thoroughly different from the zombies and skeletons of previous titles, and though Horkers are essentially walrus, they've had that name since ''Morrowind''. Beyond that, wolves are wolves, bears are bears, and mammoths are even mammoths.
***mammoths. Skeevers in the game are even described as "rat-like", and are much larger then rats. Since Skyrim has other prehistoric animals, maybe the skeevers are supposed to be some kind of early mammaliaformes.
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** The commentary track for the first film actually admits that "lycan" is a contraction of "lycanthrope," and that they used it because they thought "werewolf" would sound cheesy. [[SarcasmMode As opposed to "vampire,"]] [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer which lends it that touch of classic elegance.]]
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* In DianeDuane's ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novel ''The Empty Chair'', we see the sentence "like a conjurer with a ''smeerp'' up his sleeve."
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* Largely averted in Gurney's {{Literature/Dinotopia}} books; flora and fauna are meticulously called by their scientific names, no matter how long those might be; it's mentioned that learning these is an essential part of a child's education. And no matter that the setting takes place before most dinosaurs were given these names. However, the trope ''is'' used with skybaxes, GiantFlyer pterosaurs who have appeared in every one to date. ''Journey To Chandra'' mentions in passing that they're Quetzalcoatlus, but people usually just call them skybaxes. They, and no others, are called by a common name. It's made odder because a larger Quetzalcoatlus subspecies showed up in a previous book and was mentioned to be ''Q. northropi''.
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* Largely averted in Gurney's {{Literature/Dinotopia}} books; flora and fauna are meticulously called by their scientific names, no matter how long those might be; it's mentioned that learning these is an essential part of a child's education. And no matter that the setting takes place before most dinosaurs were given these names. However, the trope ''is'' used with skybaxes, GiantFlyer pterosaurs who have appeared in every one to date. ''Journey To Chandra'' Chandara'' mentions in passing that they're Quetzalcoatlus, but people usually just call them skybaxes. They, and no others, are called by a common name. It's made odder because a larger Quetzalcoatlus subspecies showed up in a previous book and was mentioned to be ''Q. northropi''. The Ovinutrix are another one. They are Oviraptors,but disliked the name because it was a mistaken reference to them eating eggs, which in real life was proven likely false. So they,particularly the hatchery attendants, use "Ovinutrix" or 'Egg Nurse' instead of "Oviraptor" or " Egg Thief".
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* The "Hippy Hobbit Thief" Betty in ''ComicBook/RatQueens'' is consistently referred to as a "Smidgen" in the books themselves. We can presume that this is because the Tolkien estate is notoriously defensive about non-Tolkien writers referring to their halflings as "hobbits."
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* In TrudiCanavan's ''Literature/TheBlackMagicianTrilogy'' and ''Literature/TheAgeOfTheFive'', she renames everything to the point of needing a glossary in the back of every book. She justifies this in an interview by saying that coming across the word 'sheep' during a fantasy novel can kinda spoil things.
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* In TrudiCanavan's ''Literature/TheBlackMagicianTrilogy'' and ''Literature/TheAgeOfTheFive'', she renames everything to the point of needing a glossary in the back of every book. She justifies this in an interview by saying that coming across the word 'sheep' during a fantasy novel can kinda spoil things. Amusingly, horses are still horses (at least in the Black Magician universe).
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* In [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] 4th Edition, there are monsters called the Macetail Behemoth and the Bloodspike Behemoth, which have an uncanny resemblance to an ankylosaur and a stegosaurus respectively. The 4E names may be inspired by TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}, where halflings name all dinosaurs this way. The dragons also have their own names for the dinosaurs, so every species has three different names. There's a chart in one of the books to help keep things straight.
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* In [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] 4th Edition, there are monsters called the Macetail Behemoth and the Bloodspike Behemoth, which have an uncanny resemblance to an ankylosaur and a stegosaurus stegosaur respectively. The 4E names may be inspired by TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}, where halflings name all dinosaurs this way. The dragons also have their own names for the dinosaurs, so every species has three different names. There's a chart in one of the books to help keep things straight.
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* ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'' contains a few mineral and vegetable examples: Rubies are known as "Almandines", oranges as "Aranges" (both after the region they're most common in, Almada and Arania respectively), hemp is called "Ilmenleaf" (possibly to get its recreational use past the censors...) and platinum is known as "Moonsilver".
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* ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'' contains a few mineral and vegetable examples: Rubies are known as "Almandines", oranges as "Aranges" (both after the region they're most common in, Almada and Arania respectively), hemp is called "Ilmenleaf" (possibly to get its recreational use past the censors...) and platinum is known as "Moonsilver".
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* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series consistently refers to common clucking barnyard fowl as "Cuccos". One character even refers to a cowardly character as a "Cucco". It's less out-there than most examples, since it's based on the Japanese equivalent of "cock-a-doodle-doo" (''kokke'''kokko'''h!'' --> ''kokko''). Mind you, this is rampant throughout the series. Crows are called guays, bats are keese, vultures are takkuri, snakes are ropes, ghosts are poes, skeletons are stalfos, zombies are redeads, mummies are gibdos, spiders are tektites. It's important to bear in mind, however, that almost all of these examples of mundane things (like cuccos) have extra-ordinary powers. To use the cucco example, chickens cannot instantly form vast indestructible Determinator flying swarms to avenge fallen brethren, whereas cuccos ''do''.
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* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series consistently refers to common clucking barnyard fowl as "Cuccos". One character even refers to a cowardly character as a "Cucco". It's less out-there than most examples, since it's based on the Japanese equivalent of "cock-a-doodle-doo" (''kokke'''kokko'''h!'' --> ''kokko''). Mind you, this is rampant throughout the series. Crows are called guays, bats are keese, vultures are takkuri, snakes are ropes, ghosts are poes, skeletons are stalfos, zombies are redeads, mummies are gibdos, spiders are tektites. It's important to bear in mind, however, that almost all of these examples of mundane things (like cuccos) have extra-ordinary powers. To use the cucco example, chickens cannot instantly form vast indestructible Determinator {{Determinator}} flying swarms to avenge fallen brethren, whereas cuccos ''do''.
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** Those giant bipedal dinosaurs with the really tiny arms are not Tyrannosauruses, they're devilsaurs.
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** This even extends to some of the playable sentient races. Those humanoid bull/cow people that are part of the Horde are not minotaurs, they're Tauren. The new sixth race for the Alliance in ''Cataclysm'' are not werewolves, they're Worgen.
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** This even extends to some of the playable sentient races. Those humanoid bull/cow cattle people that are part of the Horde are not minotaurs, they're Tauren. The new sixth race for the Alliance in ''Cataclysm'' are not werewolves, they're Worgen.
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* ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'' uses dinosaur terminologies similar to TheLandBeforeTime, including "Earthwalkers" for Triceratops, "Snowhorns" for Wooly Mammoths, and "Red Eyes" for Tyrannosaurus.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' does this with food. Butter is now "blutter", coriander is now "Snoriander", pizza is now "feetsa", etc.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' does this with food. Butter is now "blutter", coriander is now "Snoriander", "snoriander", pizza is now "feetsa", etc.
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* Androids in ''[[Literature/RieselTalesTwoHunters Riesel Tales: Two Hunters]]'' are usually referred to as "Rets," short for "[=RetiNew=]". This was originally the name of a special line of social androids made to accompany their owners wherever they went, but has since become a generic term for all social androids.
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* In the "GuardiansOfGahoole" series, there are a large quantity of words made up in order to make the owls feel more like a unique culture.
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** "Piwafwi" was established as the Drow word for "cloak" back in Salvatore's early Drizzt novels.
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** "Piwafwi" was established as the Drow word for "cloak" back in Salvatore's early Drizzt novels. In addition, piwafwis have certain characteristics that our cloaks do not, such as camouflaging the wearer to infrared vision. It ultimately comes down to the same thing as calling a Japanese sword a Katana: "Katana" is nothing but the japanese translation for "sword", but it still contains extra information on what kind of sword it is.
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* In TrudiCanavan's ''Literature/TheBlackMagicianTrilogy'' and ''TheAgeOfFive'', she renames everything to the point of needing a glossary in the back of every book. She justifies this in an interview by saying that coming across the word 'sheep' during a fantasy novel can kinda spoil things.
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* In TrudiCanavan's ''Literature/TheBlackMagicianTrilogy'' and ''TheAgeOfFive'', ''Literature/TheAgeOfTheFive'', she renames everything to the point of needing a glossary in the back of every book. She justifies this in an interview by saying that coming across the word 'sheep' during a fantasy novel can kinda spoil things.
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** In the second season, Varrick begins creating black-and-white films called "movers" rather than movies.
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** And are known to enjoy a good cup of ''kaf'' (coffee).
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** Many plants and animals have their names changed to more descriptive terms. Thus you might have someone taking shade under a leatherleaf tree and trying to shoo away the bitemes.
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* Mitch Benn's ''Terra'' practically epitomises this trope. Here he is describing a sports match: "To Fthfth's delight, Terra's gfrg skills came on in leaps and bounds (quite literally; there's a fair bit of leaping and bounding goes on in gshkth). She would convert Fthfth's zmms into zdds, smashing frkts and forcing yk yks and slotting the bdkt neatly to Fthfth so that Fthfth could ram home a victorious ghhh, to the rapturous hisses of their classmates." To be fair, it's a children's book, and children might well find that quite amusing.
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* The rabbits of ''WatershipDown'' have their own Lapine language to describe things that are relevant to being a rabbit. Since the story's setting is recognizable to humans as 20th-century England, many of these words describe things that humans already have names for. ''Elil'' are animals that rabbits classify as predators, such as foxes, weasels, and humans; ''hraka'' is rabbit droppings; ''hrududu'' is anything with a motor, such as an automobile or a tractor. This often serves to illustrate very viscerally the differences in the way the rabbit view the world. For example, rabbits do consider "elil" to include what humans would recognise as predators...but they also consider ''roads'' to be elil. Likewise, a human would probably think that a train would be "hrududu" in rabbit speech; but when the rabbits encounter one they believe it's a divine being, because they don't have the knowledge base to grasp that it's essentially just a much larger vehicle driven by a much larger motor.
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* The rabbits of ''WatershipDown'' have their own Lapine language to describe things that are relevant to being a rabbit. Since the story's setting is recognizable to humans as 20th-century England, many of these words describe things that humans already have names for. ''Elil'' are animals that rabbits classify as predators, such as foxes, weasels, and humans; ''hraka'' is rabbit droppings; ''hrududu'' is anything with a motor, such as an automobile or a tractor. This often serves to illustrate very viscerally the differences in the way the rabbit view the world. For example, rabbits do consider "elil" to include what humans would recognise as predators...but they also consider ''roads'' to be elil. Likewise, a human would probably think that a train would be "hrududu" in rabbit speech; but when the rabbits encounter one they believe it's a divine being, because they don't have the knowledge base to grasp that it's essentially just a much larger vehicle driven by a much larger motor. However the Efrafan rabbits seem to be able to view things from a more human-like perspective as they explicitly refer to a rabbit's death being caused by a train.
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* In ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'', the planets they visit are occasionally victim to this. The most common one is the Stargate itself, which is called everything from "The Great Circle" to a "chappa'ai", but they also use this trope on other words, including swear words every now and then.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' seems to be allergic to standard video game terminology. Just to name a few examples: "Discharge" means "bomb", "segment" means "stage", "away" means "exit game", "bootleg ghost" means "autobomb", to name a few examples. Even the options men--sorry, [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16567705/shmups/H_E_L_L_S_I_N_K_E_R_._2013-08-19_06-25-38.png Tuning Dipswitches]] are a chore to decipher[[labelnote:*]]To be fair, "Dipswitches" may be a ShoutOut to the DIP switches on older arcade machines, which are used to determine game settings.[[/labelnote]].
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** "Daggits" from were dogs. Amusingly, many people only think of Muffet, the robotic replacement for a daggit, when they hear the word "daggit", but it applied first to normal dogs.
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* It's also not quite the same. One of the few times we get an exact measurement, Crichton mentions "180 microts" as the amount of time that his brain can go without oxygen and still be revived. The real world answer in human terms is about 4 minutes, making a "microt" roughly 1.3 seconds.
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** Even more applicable to his ''Pellucidar'' novels, where various prehistoric animals are called by names such as "tandor" (mammoth), "sithic" (labyrinthodont), "thipdar" (pteranodon), and "lidi" (diplodocus). Understandable, as having primitive natives call these animals by their highly-technical scientific names would've been pretty jarring.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' seems to be allergic to standard video game terminology. Just to name a few examples: "Discharge" means "bomb", "segment" means "stage", "away" means "exit game", "bootleg ghost" means "autobomb", to name a few examples. Even the options men--sorry, [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16567705/shmups/H_E_L_L_S_I_N_K_E_R_._2013-08-19_06-25-38.png Tuning Dipswitches]] are a chore to decipher.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' seems to be allergic to standard video game terminology. Just to name a few examples: "Discharge" means "bomb", "segment" means "stage", "away" means "exit game", "bootleg ghost" means "autobomb", to name a few examples. Even the options men--sorry, [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16567705/shmups/H_E_L_L_S_I_N_K_E_R_._2013-08-19_06-25-38.png Tuning Dipswitches]] are a chore to decipher.decipher[[labelnote:*]]To be fair, "Dipswitches" may be a ShoutOut to the DIP switches on older arcade machines, which are used to determine game settings.[[/labelnote]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' seems to be allergic to standard video game terminology. Just to name a few examples: "Discharge" means "bomb", "segment" means "stage", "break" means "end game", "bootleg ghost" means "autobomb", to name a few examples. Even the options men--sorry, [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16567705/shmups/H_E_L_L_S_I_N_K_E_R_._2013-08-19_06-25-38.png Tuning Dipswitches]] are a chore to decipher.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' seems to be allergic to standard video game terminology. Just to name a few examples: "Discharge" means "bomb", "segment" means "stage", "break" "away" means "end "exit game", "bootleg ghost" means "autobomb", to name a few examples. Even the options men--sorry, [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16567705/shmups/H_E_L_L_S_I_N_K_E_R_._2013-08-19_06-25-38.png Tuning Dipswitches]] are a chore to decipher.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' seems to be allergic to standard video game terminology. Just to name a few examples: "Discharge" means "bomb", "segment" means "stage", "break" means "end game", "bootleg ghost" means "autobomb", to name a few examples. Even the options men--I mean, [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16567705/shmups/H_E_L_L_S_I_N_K_E_R_._2013-08-19_06-25-38.png Tuning Dipswitches]] are a chore to decipher.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' seems to be allergic to standard video game terminology. Just to name a few examples: "Discharge" means "bomb", "segment" means "stage", "break" means "end game", "bootleg ghost" means "autobomb", to name a few examples. Even the options men--I mean, men--sorry, [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16567705/shmups/H_E_L_L_S_I_N_K_E_R_._2013-08-19_06-25-38.png Tuning Dipswitches]] are a chore to decipher.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' seems to be allergic to standard video game terminology. Just to name a few examples: "Discharge" means "bomb", "segment" means "stage", "break" means "end game", "bootleg ghost" means "autobomb", to name a few examples. Even the options men--I mean, [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16567705/shmups/H_E_L_L_S_I_N_K_E_R_._2013-08-19_06-25-38.png Tuning Dipswitches]] are a chore to decipher.
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Although using such proprietary terminology can give a work its own flavor, keep in mind that TropesAreNotGood; having too much such terminology can make a work feel pretentious or too confusing to follow.
