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->''"It's named after the legendary sword Excalibur. [[LampshadeHanging But since swords don't exist in Mario's world, there's no way for Mario to get the reference.]]"''
-->-- Monster List entry on '''Exor''', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' remake
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->'''misbehavingmaiar:''' [[YouMakeMeSic LIsten.]] Linguistics [[MemeticMutation Georg]], who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

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->'''misbehavingmaiar:''' [[YouMakeMeSic LIsten.]] [=LIsten.=] Linguistics [[MemeticMutation Georg]], who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
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->'''but-the-library-of-alexandria:''' the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise - what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if [[Creator/{{Plato}} plato]] never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say ‘bungalow’ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn’t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a [[ConLang fantasy language]] but who has the time for that
->'''sebastian-bond:''' [[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien]] had the time apparently
->'''misbehavingmaiar:''' [[YouMakeMeSic LIsten.]] Linguistics [[MemeticMutation Georg]], who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
-->--[[https://misbehavingmaiar.tumblr.com/post/141229577819/sebastian-bond-but-the-library-of-alexandria A Tumblr conversation]]

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