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Word For The Day, Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2012 - syllepsis
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| 22 November 2012
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Posted on 11/22/2012 5:08:40 AM PST by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
syllepsis \sə-'lep-səs\ noun
1. the use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense
2. the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender.
Example sentences:
Rend your heart, and not your garments.
--Joel 2:13
You held your breath and the door for me.
--Alanis Morissette
"Fix the problem, not the blame."
--Dave Weinbaum
Etymology:
1570–80; Medieval Latin syllēpsis - Greek sýllēpsis, equivalent to syl- syl- + lēb- (variant stem of lambánein to take) + -sis -sis
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
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posted on
11/22/2012 5:10:14 AM PST
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secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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posted on
11/22/2012 5:10:59 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
This might not be an exact syllepsis, but I have asked libs this question:
“Are you a liberal because of Idealism, or Ideology?”
And then there is the road rage classic:
“Pick a LANE, not your NOSE!”
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posted on
11/22/2012 5:14:37 AM PST
by
left that other site
(Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
To: left that other site
A for you!
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posted on
11/22/2012 5:15:41 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden; All
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posted on
11/22/2012 5:31:13 AM PST
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
To: zeugma
Ping to FReeper Zeugma.
Just for the record, a zeugma is a *somewhat* similar and playful rhetorical construction.
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posted on
11/22/2012 5:34:39 AM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: secret garden
Secret Garden’s syllepsis gives us a holiday of the body, but not of the mind by convening school on Thanksgiving!
To: left that other site
How's this?
Close the border, not your mind.
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posted on
11/22/2012 5:43:23 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
(The forces of decadence are the forces of evil.)
To: Savage Beast
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posted on
11/22/2012 5:46:36 AM PST
by
left that other site
(Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
To: secret garden
The Tyrant’s promise to “(I will) stand with them
should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
is a syllepsis, corroborated by more hard documentation
including dead Americans this Thanksgiving Day,
than he, himself, has ever shown, even after request.
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:02:05 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
(Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
To: secret garden
"...???...after spending a week in alley's, my vet said I had to undergo a series of shots to cure my syllēpsis"
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:03:41 AM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: hobbes1
And to you and your family!
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:22:45 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: Flycatcher
A for knowing the difference!
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:23:55 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: afraidfortherepublic
A for you!
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:25:24 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: Savage Beast
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:26:08 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: Diogenesis
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:26:52 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: Doogle
Cats are professional slackers. A+ for you.
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:28:05 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
Happy thanksgiving to you!
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:55:14 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
How do you know when you've had enough to eat today? ........when you have to let the belt out on your bathrobe.
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:57:56 AM PST
by
tioga
(On suicide watch. 4 more years is too much.)
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