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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread convex, vs concave #112551 09/22/2003 11:30 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 One man's convexity is another man's concavity. Be sure to put the food to be cooked into the concave side. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: convex, vs concave #112552 09/23/2003 2:51 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Dr. Bill your definitions strike me as rather bowlderized. [ducks and runs for cover] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: convex, vs concave #112553 09/23/2003 3:28 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 And it woks like a duck. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: convex, vs concave #112554 10/04/2003 5:38 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... If it quacks like a duck, it is a duck. What rhetorical device is this? We learned way back in high school many, many years ago the mnemonic: concave = take a flat surface; curve it inward to make a little cave convex = take a flat surface; curve it outward to make a sexy breast (Edit: vex rhymes with sex) My best friend in high school and I would look at our sorely-developing little chests and bemoan the fact that we were concave and not convex. The meaning has stuck with me for almost four decades, so something in the mnemonic must have worked! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: convex, vs concave #112555 10/04/2003 11:22 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear WW: Not exactly a figure of speach. A mnemonic. Curves and spaces in all the right places. Omitting limerick about young man from Racine. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter 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. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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