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1	'''Basic Trope''': An ordinary item/creature is called by a fictional name.
2	* '''Straight''': A rabbit is called a smeerp.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Every object that exists in reality is called by a different made up name. Clocks are called "ring-toks", for example.
5	** A rabbit is called a [[OverlyLongName substered perhympiedexcitypolinkhausive galition]].
6	* '''Downplayed''': The rabbit has a few differences from ordinary rabbits (for instance, it has long fangs), but wouldn't "fanged rabbit" be a more appropriate name for it than "smeerp"?
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** The work takes place in a world with alternate naming conventions for items.
9	** GratuitousForeignLanguage
10	** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottontail_rabbit Sylvilagus]] Smeerpus is a species of rabbit discovered by Dr. Smeerp.
11	** [[SpySpeak The gathering rolls no moss while the smeerp is loafened into the opening.]][[labelnote:translation]]No unencrypted messages about the rabbit on a monitored-by-the-enemy channel.[[/labelnote]]
12	** Bobby, [[FirstPersonPerspective the one-year-old P.O.V. Character]], doesn't know the word for ducks (yet), so he calls them "quackquacks".
13	* '''Inverted''': CallASmeerpARabbit
14	* '''Subverted''': The "smeerp" is revealed to have good reason for being considered different from rabbits.
15	* '''Double Subverted''': This "reason" is something such as having more than one fur color, having lop ears, or any other trait that regular rabbits could just as well have.
16	* '''Parodied''':
17	** Everyone keeps calling the rabbit "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Not a Rabbit]]".
18	** The word for rabbit is so long or ridiculous sounding that HilarityEnsues whenever the characters talk about one.
19	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Sometimes they call the creature a rabbit, and sometimes they call it a smeerp.
20	* '''Averted''': Everyone just calls it a rabbit.
21	* '''Enforced''': "We want the setting to be almost exactly like Earth, with a few differences. So stick some regular Earth objects and animals on there, but give them different names."
22	* '''Lampshaded''': "Isn't that just a rabbit?"
23	* '''Invoked''': Bob tells a taxonomer to start calling rabbits "smeerps".
24	* '''Exploited''': Bob uses an item's NonIndicativeName to make it sound more dangerous than it really is so he can intimidate an enemy.
25	* '''Defied''': "What the hell is a smeerp? That's a rabbit, and we're calling it a rabbit."
26	* '''Discussed''': "I've heard they have creatures on Earth exactly like smeerps, but they call them a different name."
27	* '''Conversed''': "I can understand calling a cat a meow, but a rabbit a smeerp? Is that even the sound rabbits make?!"
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33	%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
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35	%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
36	%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???

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