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To: zeugma

"... but it is really a gerund with two objects which it modifies in two distinct, yet different ways."

From your description, it appears to be a thing of great complexity, nuance, refinement and subtlety belied by simple outward appearance.

Now, if only there were a term for such a thing.....

14 posted on 07/14/2015 9:51:26 PM PDT by shibumi ("Cover it with gas and set it on fire.")

To: shibumi

Excellent.

38 posted on 07/15/2015 6:56:20 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)

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