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xkcd: Fridge Logic - robkelk - 04-25-2011
At least, I think http://xkcd.com/890/]this is an example of what TVTropes calls "Fridge Logic":
![[Image: etymology.png]](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/etymology.png)
(Would somebody who has a TVTropes account like to suggest this as an appropriate image for that page, by any chance?)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Black Aeronaut - 04-25-2011
Fridge logic response: But with all the other languages and cultures, why bother asking? Just another strange name.
- Norgarth - 04-26-2011
Besides, they wouldn't really be speaking 'English' anyways, so 'Millenium Falcon' is just a rough translation anyways. 8P
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- robkelk - 04-26-2011
Timote Wrote:Besides, they wouldn't really be speaking 'English' anyways, so 'Millenium Falcon' is just a rough translation anyways. 8PEvery other Star Wars animal got a non-Terran name...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- TheTwisted1 - 04-26-2011
As I see it, a more on-point TV Trope for this is Orphaned Etymology.
--The Twisted One
"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."
--Voltaire