Maybe, but without more detail we can't add it as an example.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Okay, can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STOP putting this on people for whom it doesn't fit? Names like Ironfist and Thundershield are TWO NOUNS. They are NOT Nounverbers. :(
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First sentence of the description says that the exact noun-verber structure is not the only possible one. The trope is in the implication of the name — noun-noun or adjective-noun or whatever name it is conveys a meaning because they are real English words rather than, say, Elizabeth or Jones, which have no meaning outside being names.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Yeah, I read the description. It's still incredibly infuriating. I mean, style point for the trope name reference to Star Wars, but if it's going to apply to any surname that means thing aside from being just a name, "noun-verber" is non-indicative of what the trope actually is.
That one.
"Weatherwax is probably a corruption of a similar-sounding Dutch name"
Wa? Dutch troper here has no clue what name this could ever refer to.
Edited by Wolfzoon Natter. Natter. [[Friends Word's lost all meaning.]] Links are hard it seems.
Speed Racer (1967) is chock full of these.
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