Talk:Quibble (plot device)

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Inversion

This strikes me as not a quibble and not noteworthy in itself. Goldfritha 01:37, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I think it can be well worth while to describe the inversion of a trope along with the trope itself. I think the example I gave was a nice example of inverting the quibble and should go back in. Does anbody have any input? (The section in question is reproduced below).

I also feel that the article is any case a somewhat random list of examples, that may need editing. I may be somewhat biased but I don't seee that an Iain Banks example is any less noteworthy than a Piers Anthony example.

Iain Banks cleverly inverts the quibble in Excession in the following way -We are greatly outnumbered -I will not surrender -Well I'm going to surrender -But x swore you would obey us -And I have, within reason -But x didn't say anthing about 'within reason' -Well I think one always just takes that sort of proviso for granted, anyway I have transmitted the request for surrender. ChristineD 23:03, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

It's not an example of a quibble. Why include it? Goldfritha 00:37, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Like TV Tropes

This article reads as if it was TV Tropes instead of Wikipedia. ;) Homei (talk) 03:22, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

You say that as if it were a bad thing. 2001:9E8:461E:A700:CC6E:E725:7BBC:B04A (talk) 16:41, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Needs pictures

This article needs a picture of a quibble. I do not know what quibbles look like.

Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 00:15, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

As an entirely abstract concept, a quibble cannot be photographed and does not lend itself to depiction. You might have been thinking of a tribble, however. :) --Florian Blaschke (talk) 12:47, 13 April 2016 (UTC)