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#45435 11/09/01 02:04 PM
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Does anyone remember the name for the rhetorical device for saying what you are not going to say?

Yes.


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You should have turned the other cheek, Plutarch.
I guess I'm hanging by a thread here, Wordminstrel. But I am chastened by all this censure. I solemnly declare that I will never again [in this thread] return an insult with heart-felt praise. (I have a weakness for "The Doors" and sometimes it gets the better of me.)




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Does anyone remember the name for the rhetorical device for saying what you are not going to say?
I don't know, wwh. But Shakespeare's Marc Anthony said it best: "We came to bury Caesar not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar."







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"We came to bury Caesar not to praise him.
Nemo dat quod non habet. You can't paper over your ill-breeding by quoting Shakespeare, Plutarch. The devil can quote scripture, doncha know.


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The devil can quote scripture
True. He can also quote "The Doors". Oops. I didn't mean to say that. Is that a cataphasis?


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Is that a cataphasis?

No.


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Dear Wordminstrel: Baiting your breath with methyl chloride could swiftly abate your breathing.
It is not my breath I wish to abate, wwh. In any case, it seems to have worked.




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Be not the first by whom the new is tried, not yet the last to lay the old aside.


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I hear this is the place talibanned by people of "good breeding". I can't wait to tell all my friends about it.


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