Jun 23, 2009
Have you ever seen a zeugma in the wild?
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I can’t quite tell through the undergrowth of Alaskan wilderness and linguistic minutiae, but I think there’s a real-life zeugma over there:
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You are weird.
And too smart for me.
Can we get back to things I understand like pee, puke, and being afraid of motorcycles?
:)
I’m w/ SD on this one. Weird.
But, that’s not to say that the noun/verb awkwardness doesn’t bother me too.
We watched this movie a couple of months ago… what a crazy idea!
The lack of parallelism trips me up. “[Noun] and [verb] by Sean Penn.” Make either equal and I would have no problems.
Point for you in the game of obscure rhetorical devices!
Actually, I haven’t seen this movie, but I’ve read the book three times.
This sort of thing shows up in Greek sometimes. Glad I know what to call it now.
i was all pumped to say, “diazeugma!”, in a fit of application, but then…the lack of parallelism threw me off.
Reminds me of:
“And he said as he hastened to put out the cat,
The wine, his cigar and the lamps…”
Madeira M’Dear
Liked the movie, loved the book.
zeugma? The things I learn here…or realize I have no clue about… :)
Am I the only one who initially scanned the included photo for a small furry creature, thinking he’d learn something new about the animal kingdom?
Not only did I scan, I was sure I found it… surprised when I clicked through…
You know, the sad thing is, I learned about those stylistic devices first in school and then again later at university, and I still thought of a furry creature (perhaps something similar to a zebroid ) at first…