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« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2014, 01:07:59 pm »
i'm not sure if i get it!  do you have an example?

The examples used in the article are "set in" and "cause" which, by themselves, are neutral words and can be used to present anything positive or negative that is set in or caused. However, they generally are associated with negative things for some reason, e.g., rot setting in or an accident being caused.

thank you!  clearer now! 

@ Wilshire - now that word is holy

Metaplasmus - deliberate misspelling for effect (and other things)

http://changingminds.org/techniques/language/figures_speech/metaplasmus.htm

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« Reply #16 on: November 05, 2014, 12:31:27 pm »
Single word grammatically correct sentences:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

(to help you parse: The buffalo from Buffalo who are buffaloed by buffalo from Buffalo, buffalo (verb) other buffalo from Buffalo.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

Some good links at the bottom of that wiki page.

The semantic satiation link is especially apt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation
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« Reply #17 on: November 05, 2014, 04:02:09 pm »
THE LOGOS IS WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END!!!

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« Reply #18 on: November 29, 2014, 04:09:42 am »
Single word grammatically correct sentences:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

(to help you parse: The buffalo from Buffalo who are buffaloed by buffalo from Buffalo, buffalo (verb) other buffalo from Buffalo.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

Some good links at the bottom of that wiki page.

a little similar to your awesome sentence: supreme court rules supreme court rules.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/supreme-court-rules-supreme-court-rules,998/

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« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2014, 02:30:34 am »
That thing where you replace a swear work with symbols, like "Why won't Bakker @#$%&! tweet something other than stupid definitions?!?" is called a GRAWLIX.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grawlix

http://grammar.about.com/od/fh/g/Grawlix.htm

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« Reply #20 on: May 04, 2015, 06:26:09 pm »
here's this cool thing called hendiadys!  it works like this, you take a sentence like "I love your beautiful face" and change it to "I love your beauty and your face."  replace the adjective with a noun and add a conjunction!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendiadys


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« Reply #22 on: May 14, 2015, 03:03:53 pm »
Saw that one a few months ago and used it ever since to blow out my students' minds.
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« Reply #23 on: May 14, 2015, 03:52:41 pm »
Saw that one a few months ago and used it ever since to blow out my students' minds.

ain't it cool?!

i wanted to look up some more things like this, but stopped when my "weird sentence" got a google suggestion of "weird sentence generators."  there are way too many of these things out there ...

http://www.wordgenerator.net/random-sentence-generator.php
http://nonsense.x2d.org/
http://weird.zoril.co.uk/weird.php

but this one really did it for me, i found it vaguely threatening

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/2155232/

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« Reply #24 on: August 09, 2015, 08:55:36 pm »
cool word i just saw: LECANOMANCY

this is divination via reading oil in water or reading the ripples when dropping a stone into water

looking at you Meppa (he's not looking back)

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« Reply #25 on: August 09, 2015, 11:01:18 pm »
There are actually a ton of weird "-mancies", ranging from cool to creepy to downright hilarious. Tyromancy, for example, is the art of divination through the observation of cheese.


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« Reply #26 on: August 10, 2015, 07:12:16 pm »
There are actually a ton of weird "-mancies", ranging from cool to creepy to downright hilarious. Tyromancy, for example, is the art of divination through the observation of cheese.



i hadn't thought of that!  looking it up, the list goes on forever!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_divination

alectormancy - divination by rooster
choriomancy - divination by pig bladders
eromancy - divination by water vessels exposed to air
hyomancy - divination by wild hogs (GO HAWGZ)
moromancy - divination by fools
phyllorhodomancy - divination by rose petals
radiesthesia - divination by pendulums
sikidy - divination by drawing 16 lines in sand

WOW

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« Reply #27 on: August 18, 2015, 04:27:50 pm »
Interesting list, I absolutely LOVE the internet  :D
papyromancy - by folding paper, especially paper money
GREAT ;D

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« Reply #28 on: August 30, 2015, 05:39:29 pm »

Interesting list, I absolutely LOVE the internet  :D
papyromancy - by folding paper, especially paper money
GREAT ;D

This should be in a movie where a sorcerer kills someone via orgami

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« Reply #29 on: October 06, 2015, 09:06:23 pm »
hey hey!  it's the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest!  the contest for especially bad writing!

http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/