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Have you ever used a phrase which, as soon as you said or typed it, you knew meant that, for good or ill, you were now irrevocably a part of your field of study or profession?
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Yesterday at work, this came out of my mouth: "Devin, will you please bring me a fork or something, I've got to dissect this dragon's poop."
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quote:Avadaru: Yesterday at work, this came out of my mouth: "Devin, will you please bring me a fork or something, I've got to dissect this dragon's poop."
So this means that you are in Ravenclaw, because you are a scientist-type?
Sorry, I am new here and trying to understand.
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Thanks, guys. I was afraid I was going to have to turn this into one of those "deerpark" threads where I'm the only one who posts.
"Antanaclasis" is a rhetorical device in which the speaker repeats the same word or phrase but with a different meaning the second time.
"Anaphora" is repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences or lines of poetry.
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I wrote that particular horrible phrase in an explication I was doing of a Petrarchan canzone in which the word ove ("where") is used three different times in a stanza but with a slightly different meaning each time.
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Like "flvaour-changing neutral current?" And I had occasion to say "Well, yes, but at those masses the phase space goes to zero" the other day.
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We should do a game where you say a bit of jargon, it has to be something real, and everyone tries to guess the field.
Mine's too easy. "Run the encoder into a counting card on the PLC to get high resolution roll placement control for strapping."
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I rattled off the phrase "smoothed consumption curves" to my befuddled philosophy professor an hour ago.
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Write now I am synchronizing my domain model with CVS in order to commit the new java beans and domainVO's I wrote. I ran an Ant script which uses ejbdoclet tags to generate the local and remote interfaces, along with the business delegates and deployment descriptors. Next I need to use WSAD to generate the websphere specific deploy code. After that I need to change the JSP pages and Struts actions to reflect the new changes.
Edit: The great thing about hatrack (or maybe the sad thing) is that there are at least a dozen people here who know exactly what I am talking about.
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Your definition of anaphora is quite different from the one with which I am familiar. Generally, an anaphora is a phrase whose interpretation is dependent on a preceding phrase. For example:
[quote]Gimme a f'rinstance.
And this would explain Tante's explosively high post count. [quote]
In this case "And this" and "f'rinstance" are both anaphorisms because you have to know what was said in the previous sentence to have any idea what they mean.
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X: I read that and went, "where's the jargon?" .
I honestly don't have an example I can bring to mind; partly I'm just so steeped in it, and partly my memory sucks .
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Rabbit, I believe there is some such similar meaning in linguistics, but I'm in lit., so my use was the rhetorical meaning.
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