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syllepsis - Word of the Day - Sat Feb 5, 2022


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syllepsis - (noun) - the use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in a sense.

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We touched upon a specific form of syllepsis in a previous Word of the Day when we had zeugma.  In research, an example of a syllepsis from the song Be Prepared by Tim Rice in Disney's Lion King, "My teeth and ambitions are bared".

 

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Mrsgnomie

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At first glance I thought you picked Syphilis as the word of the day and I was like. “Well, this will be a fun discussion.”


 

 

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Dodger

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3 hours ago, Mrsgnomie said:

At first glance I thought you picked Syphilis as the word of the day and I was like. “Well, this will be a fun discussion.”


 

 

Glad I wasn't the only one to make that mistake.

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Mrsgnomie

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To add non STD input. I don't foresee me ever using the word syllepsis in a sentence, but I am looking forwarding to working it's context in to something. Maybe, my own hit Disney song. We'll see. 

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Mrsgnomie

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Just now, Mrsgnomie said:

To add non STD input. I don't foresee me ever using the word syllepsis in a sentence, but I am looking forwarding to working it's context in to something. Maybe, my own hit Disney song. We'll see. 

One more thing, my computer does not recognize syllepsis as a word. So, I will not feel bad when I forget about it's existence. (Also, I just spelled existence so bad that my computer couldn't even given guess what I was trying to say. So, that's how my day is going.) 

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Myr

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51 minutes ago, Mrsgnomie said:

One more thing, my computer does not recognize syllepsis as a word. So, I will not feel bad when I forget about it's existence. (Also, I just spelled existence so bad that my computer couldn't even given guess what I was trying to say. So, that's how my day is going.) 

sounds like my day...

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JamesSavik

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My example of a syllepsis: Chris had his usual effect: I lost my temper and my mind.

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