Talk:Rayman Legends Adventures in The Land Before Time 1/Script/@comment-130.44.61.244-20201004134754

The Land Before Time series (including the original film by Don Bluth) uses the trope Call a Rabbit a Smeerp, and it uses the trope to death, but in the past, with dinosaurs. On one hand, if you saw Triceratops every day, you’d want to come up with a word for them that’s easier on the tongue than polysyllabic and generic names that scientists come up with. On the other, the reasoning could have had more to do with the Viewers Are Morons mindset, because, of course, kids are always having a hard time remembering dinosaur names like Tyrannosaurus, Apatosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, etc. So therefore, everything in The Land Before Time series has incredibly simplistic names, such as “sharp tooth” for Tyrannosaurus, “long neck” for Apatosaurus, “three horn” for Triceratops, and “spike tail” for Stegosaurus. And the names aren’t just limited to dinosaurs. They refer to the sun as the “bright circle” (in the television series) and “great circle” (in the films prior to the television series). Similarly, they call the moon the “night circle.” Interestingly, the ornithomimid dinosaur Gallimimus are referred to as “rainbow faces” by the other dinosaurs, even though they call real rainbows “sky colors” and rain “sky water.” And although Ozzy and Strut, the main antagonists of The Great Valley Adventure, are referred to as “egg stealers” by the main dinosaur characters, Ozzy refers to himself as a Struthiomimus, especially when he sings the verse from his and Strut’s villain song “Eggs.” This makes Ozzy the Struthiomimus the only Land Before Time character to mention the generic name of his species.