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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 14 of 15 1 2 … 12 13 14 15 Go to page... Re: Aside to Plutarch #45435 11/09/01 02:04 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Does anyone remember the name for the rhetorical device for saying what you are not going to say? Yes. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Hanging by a thread #45436 11/09/01 02:06 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 P plutarch OP veteran OP plutarch veteran P Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 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.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Aside to Plutarch #45437 11/09/01 02:27 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 P plutarch OP veteran OP plutarch veteran P Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 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." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Cataphasis #45438 11/09/01 02:39 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Not to mention paralipsis http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=32993 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Et tu Brutu #45439 11/09/01 02:48 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 W wordminstrel enthusiast wordminstrel enthusiast W Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 "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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Et tu Brutu #45440 11/09/01 02:55 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 P plutarch OP veteran OP plutarch veteran P Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 The devil can quote scripture True. He can also quote "The Doors". Oops. I didn't mean to say that. Is that a cataphasis? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Et tu Brute #45441 11/09/01 03:12 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Is that a cataphasis? No. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Baited breath #45442 11/09/01 03:14 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 W wordminstrel enthusiast wordminstrel enthusiast W Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Aside to Plutarch #45443 11/09/01 03:30 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Be not the first by whom the new is tried, not yet the last to lay the old aside. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Talibanning #45444 11/09/01 03:45 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 104 M moss member moss member M Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 104 I hear this is the place talibanned by people of "good breeding". I can't wait to tell all my friends about it. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 14 of 15 1 2 … 12 13 14 15 Go to page... Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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