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I had heard of a term once for splitting two words by inserting another word into the "break" -- like saying:
No - flipping - way?!
or too - flipping - bad!
What is the term for this technique?
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Chuck Billow
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tmesis is the Grammatical and Rhetorical term. unfreakingbelievable.
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I think I put my "thanks" in the wrong place, so...
Thanks.
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Chuck
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Is there such a thing as "diacope" that means the same thing? I've heard it called that, as well as tmesis. It's quite common in the military milieu in which I work: two G-rated syllables never seem to suffice.
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if you look at Silva Rhetoricae, it gives diacope as a related figure for tmesis; but the descriptions seem far apart. I guess they both qualify under the general category Amplification.
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Diacope has the same sense of "putting something in the middle of something else," but it's different. Thanks - tmesis is what I hear at work all the time.
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The express path to diacope.
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I knew syncope was a fainting spell due to deficient supply of blood to the brain. I find it also has a meaning opposite to that of Tmesis - as in Worcester.
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