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Paraprosdokians.Interest forums / Speaking in Tongues | ||
Just discovered this fascinating word. Where there is a will, I want to be in it. | ||
Great word! They use this excessively in 30 Rock. | 1 | |
The form of the word didn't look right at all to me for the name of a rhetorical figure. And it seems to be a recent invention, badly compounded from two Greek words by someone who doesn't know how Greek compounds were formed or rhetorical figures named. The Wikipedia page mentions that piece and says that the term occurs in four different Greek writers on rhetoric, c. 100 BCE - c. 200 CE, but Casselman had already shown that Demetrius's de Elocutione doesn't actually use it. The other citations are all to hardcopy of texts not available on line and I strongly suspect they are equally bogus. | 2 | |
Thanks Vinny, now I am better informed. | 3 | |
I've never heard it before, but something to add to the list. It rolls off the tongue, just have to wait for the chance to use it | 4 | |
She was a good cook as cooks go, and, as cooks go, she went (H H Munro) | 5 | |