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Date: Wed Sep 24 00:03:05 EDT 1997 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--aposiopesis ap.o.si.o.pe.sis n., pl. -ses [LLat. <Gk. aposiopesis <aposiopan, to become silent: apo- (intensive) + siopan, to be silent <siope, silence] A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue. `On the Genealogy of Morals'.(book reviews)., Vol. 70, The Germanic Review, 09-01-1995, pp 177(2). "Scheier is concerned with form and Allison focuses `on Nietzsche's rhetorical use of aposiopesis,' that is, of becoming silent." Spector, Stanley J., Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's
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does this relate to "pause"?
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Dear etaoin: it sounds like a pause for effect, to convey some emotion of the speaker.
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perhaps some form of tmesis? a · pos(pause) · iopesis
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a · pos(pause) · iopesis
Naw. Check the etymology in Dr Bill's first post. apo-siope-sis
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Naw.
actually, I was thinking of some sort of aural tmesis. could our word pause(or whatever it came from) have developed from the tmetification of this word?
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