• harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 months ago

        This is my favorite pet peeve. I got through 6 pages of a fantasy novel where the writer spent multiple paragraphs describing alcohol made from potatoes and then called it “voka.”

        Those 6 pages hit on every trope possible. Not even in an entertaining way. It took itself way too seriously.

      • swordsmanluke@programming.dev
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        7 months ago

        While I agree with you on the whole, there are some real world places with names that go hard.

        Like Dead Man’s Pass, Oregon. Or Devil’s Gate, Utah.

        …Maybe it’s just a Western US thing.