Is there a trope...?

[jeriendhal]

To describe a fantasy/sci-fi author's insistence on making their made up words stand out by italicising them every single time?

It doens't help that the book I'm reading is suffering from a bad case of Call a Rabbit a Smeerp.

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[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

There was bold inflation, which is sort of like that.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

nnnn... not exactly. TV Tropes doesn't seem to have anything on it that I could see.

[mehhayperson.livejournal.com]

(AUGH don't link me TV Tropes like that! I have an essay to write. Assbutt.)

I don't know whether there is a word or not, but it's annoying as hell. TV Tropes not got an answer?

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Not that I've been able to find. I started a YKTTW thread to see if anyone comes up with a better name for it.

[bikerwalla.livejournal.com]

Well there's already an xkcd for that thing, so it could have a name sooner than you think. Might want to add that to your thread.

[seawasp]

I do that a lot with significant words, I admit. No one on the beta list has complained yet, though.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be so bad except that she's making up words for things that don't need new words, just to Sound Foreign.

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Isn't that more or less just applying the convention of italicising words or phrases that are in other languages than the main body of the text?