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Word For The Day, Thursday, November 3, 2005 - catachresis
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| November 3, 2005
| secret garden
Posted on 11/03/2005 4:45:21 AM PST by secret garden
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Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!
Here is my example with WFTD.
My favorite examples of catechresis are the misuses of affect and effect for each other.
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posted on
11/03/2005 4:46:12 AM PST
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secret garden
(<= easily amused)
To: secret garden
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11/03/2005 4:46:47 AM PST
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MortMan
(Eschew Obfuscation)
To: secret garden
catachresis • \kat-uh-KREE-sis\ • noun
1. use of the wrong word for the context
2. use of a forced and especially paradoxical figure of speech
Example sentence:
The paper printed a correction for the previous day's catachresis: dubbing a local artist-philanthropist a "socialist" when they meant "socialite." 
Eh, no harm, no foul.
To: MortMan
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11/03/2005 4:51:24 AM PST
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secret garden
(<= easily amused)
To: secret garden
Democrats for secrecy call,
They shoo the public into the hall,
A catachresis in demo speech,
For "ethics" they shrilly, constantly screech,
But what they mean is "Give to me ALL"!
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11/03/2005 4:51:42 AM PST
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MortMan
(Eschew Obfuscation)
To: secret garden
To: martin_fierro
I thought the same thing. Your post was hit hard with an ugly stick though.
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11/03/2005 4:52:15 AM PST
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secret garden
(<= easily amused)
To: secret garden
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11/03/2005 4:53:27 AM PST
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TheGrimReaper
(No underwear - no skid marks.)
To: Hegewisch Dupa
You betcha!
To: TheGrimReaper
You're early! Top 4 for you!
To: secret garden
catcharesis--the ability to nab little monkeys
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11/03/2005 4:55:23 AM PST
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evad
( MD4BUSH SPREAD RUMOURS THAT MARYLAND SEN BARBARA MIKULSKI IS A LESBIAN.)
To: secret garden
The media engages in perpetual catechresis when they refer to Reid, Durbin, Schumer, Leahy and The Swimmer as "Senators" when, in fact, they are merely lying a$$holes.
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11/03/2005 4:56:37 AM PST
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TheGrimReaper
(No underwear - no skid marks.)
To: secret garden
hullo.............my node is all struffed up and soemone is standing on my cheek bones...........sniffle.
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11/03/2005 4:57:07 AM PST
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Gabz
To: secret garden; xsmommy; Texan5; Gabz; dubyaismypresident
When I went to St Thomas Moore elementary school, we had catechrecess every morning, immediately after cathechism class and before math.
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11/03/2005 5:00:25 AM PST
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Robert A Cook PE
(-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
To: evad
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11/03/2005 5:00:55 AM PST
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Robert A Cook PE
(-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
To: secret garden
Boy, I'm glad "I" never got caught caterechesting any words!
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11/03/2005 5:04:27 AM PST
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Robert A Cook PE
(-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
To: secret garden
Morning! I'm turning in my homework on my way to work-back later-
The 'rat party provides plentiful examples
Of today's WFTD-
It seems there is catachresis
In much of what they say
Calling the Plame game a leak
When it's really only a drip
Put out by a couple of weasels
Wanting to take a power trip
Calling Hillary a senator
When they know she has an itch
To be queen and not a watchdog-
We know she's really a bitch
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11/03/2005 5:10:19 AM PST
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Texan5
(You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line..)
To: evad
Watch out for the dreaded Simian B virus! A for you.
To: MortMan
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