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Posted: 04 July 2009 01:54 PM   [ Ignore ]
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the use of a word to modify two or more words in such a way that it applies to each in a different sense, or makes sense with only one.
“The torpedoes hit their mark! Ship and many hopes sink!” Or
    “New word posted at this time. New thoughts and advertising explode like a July Fourth firecracker.”.

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Posted: 05 July 2009 08:43 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Zeugma: re-posting to eradicate an advertisement.

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Posted: 05 July 2009 07:58 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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What’s the relation of Zeugma and syllepsis?

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Posted: 05 July 2009 08:35 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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what language is that?

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Posted: 06 July 2009 08:33 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Kallen Stadtfeld - 05 July 2009 08:35 PM

what language is that?

It’s English. Word of the Day on another site, and I posted it here under ‘new topic’ to eliminate some advertising that had taken over.
It’s a cute word, don’t you think?

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Posted: 07 July 2009 10:47 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Cute!
I got more infomation from wikipedia. wink
Zeugma (from the Greek: ζεῦγμα, zeûgma, meaning “yoke”) is a figure of speech describing the joining of two or more parts of a sentence with a single common verb or noun. A zeugma employs both ellipsis, the omission of words which are easily understood, and parallelism, the balance of several words or phrases. The result is a series of similar phrases joined or yoked together by a common and implied noun or verb. A syllepsis is a particular kind of zeugma, and there is a clear distinction between the two in classical treatises written on the subject. Henry Peacham praises the “delight of the ear” in the use of the zeugma in rhetoric, but stresses to avoid “too many clauses.” The zeugma is categorized according to the location and part of speech of the governing word.

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Posted: 08 July 2009 08:31 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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Whew! makes you wonder who writes that stuff!

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