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A Comedy Trope where something mystical or cool-sounding turns out to be the native language's word or phrase for something completely mundane or outright negative. A common variant has a character sarcastically say that the subject matter is "native" (or some other language) for something that typically amounts to "piece of shit." Please note that this about situations where this is played for [...] [tvtropes.org]