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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #200 on: August 27, 2008, 10:36:47 AM »
 I think I'd rather have some grammatical mistakes than ugly Tippex marks.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #201 on: August 27, 2008, 10:43:12 AM »
I think I'd rather have some grammatical mistakes than ugly Tippex marks.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #202 on: August 27, 2008, 01:54:34 PM »
Dear Basil,

Was that inverse synecdoche?  That is, is it actually the cute girl in your group that you're maybe possibly in love with, rather than the group projects themselves?

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It is my impression that there is no possibility of "inverse" synecdoche as it can mean both part to whole or whole to part.
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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #203 on: August 27, 2008, 01:58:57 PM »
Dear Basil,

Was that inverse synecdoche?  That is, is it actually the cute girl in your group that you're maybe possibly in love with, rather than the group projects themselves?

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It is my impression that there is no possibility of "inverse" synecdoche at it can mean both part to whole or whole to part.

i think you're right keith, it goes both ways

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #204 on: August 28, 2008, 12:31:56 PM »
Word.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #205 on: October 06, 2008, 09:13:08 PM »
I get emailed a MooT game ETYMOLOGY/SEMANTICS/GRAMMAR question each week. Here's this week's question:

"A 1995 study of English writing trends claimed that during the 18th century
its use declined from 68.1 per thousand words to just 17 per thousand words.
What punctuation mark is it?"


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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #206 on: October 06, 2008, 09:18:08 PM »
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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #207 on: October 06, 2008, 10:38:44 PM »
Nope.

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« Reply #208 on: October 06, 2008, 10:40:39 PM »
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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #209 on: October 06, 2008, 10:48:24 PM »
! - would have gone down in the victorian age methinks so that's out.

this being the georgian age of romantic poetry i'd assume semicolon use actually went up given its use in stanza form.  how bout the hyphen?