My favorite bit from last night's bar chatter:
Guy: I am gonna buy a new computer.
Me: Why, is it broken or...?
Guy: I was watching porn when my mother came into the room, I tried to alt-tab away but the screen froze.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Literary Gibberish
Doing my writing stylistics assignment and I have to identify the rhetorical devices found in the materials. When I started working on it I immediately felt drowned in an ocean of pretense.
Exempli gratis, the words Anaphora, Anadiplosis and Onomatopoeia each accordingly means: repeating the first word of each sentence, starting the second sentence with the last word of the first, and words that reads like the sound it meant. You damn pompous literary asses have nothing better to do than making 5 dollar words?
Exempli gratis, the words Anaphora, Anadiplosis and Onomatopoeia each accordingly means: repeating the first word of each sentence, starting the second sentence with the last word of the first, and words that reads like the sound it meant. You damn pompous literary asses have nothing better to do than making 5 dollar words?
Besides boasting of one's class superiority or identity as an academic I fail to see the reason of using these words when you can just say: repeat the first word.
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