there was a comic book series recently that absolutely insisted on consistently referring to it as "the Die Glocke"
aw, i feel like a meanie for mocking them now. it's certainly a known linguistic phenomenon!http://dragaera.wikia.com/wiki/Bengloarafurd …
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I wonder how anyone even got the idea to do that?
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hm, good question. it feels like it must be based on something IRL, it's so human-like.
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I agree, it's one of those things that's utterly true-to-life, but hard to believe someone just invented.
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i asked him and he said it's based on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpenhow_Hill …
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interesting. An "alleged hill". What does it take to be an official hill?
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multiple citations to independent reliable sources, presumably
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excuse me, stewardess, i speak Wikipedia
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wow, that's taking things seriously! So it's not a bird, plane, or man until there's independant citations?!
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shame it's not a real place, but that's deep worldbuilding right there.
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oh, that is awesome
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