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An idle passing thought, engendered by "past" and "and a pest" in the restimulative thread.
The next association is "anapest."
But anapest is a dactyl.
Iamb is a trochee. So is dactyl, for that matter.
And so it goes...
Couldn't the Greeks have been more self-consistent?
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Iamb is a trochee. - That used to be different, last century, when I went to school  . But with all the reforms that have happened since, who knows...
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"Heterological," which I believe is the Official Definition of the concept.
Does that make Heterological an implied oxymoron?
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Yes, and you're even listing #7 on Onelook.com !
-The following sentence is true.
-The preceding sentence is false.
---Hofstadter
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Quote:
Yes, and you're even listing #7 on Onelook.com !
-The following sentence is true.
-The preceding sentence is false.
---Hofstadter
Don't let the cat out of the bag. -- Schrödinger's Mum.
Last edited by sjmaxq; 02/07/2006 9:12 PM.
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Quote:
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-The following sentence is true.
-The preceding sentence is false.
---Hofstadter
Don't let the cat out of the bag. -- Schrödinger's Mum.
...and if no one is there to hear what Schrödinger says, is it true or not?
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>listing #7 if there are 37 listings, I'll be no. 37. I shudda called it a worthless word for the day. 
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Welcome aBoard, Susan! You hit the very first word in one of my favorites of Anu's themes:
words that go out of their way to not apply to themselves. From March of 1999: phonetic
abbreviation
monosyllabic (Hi, Mechana!  ) hemidemisemiquaver I LOVE that word! descender
diminutive
opuscule archives and April archives
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> hemidemisemiquaver
at least you're not crotchety...
formerly known as etaoin...
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