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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2 posted on
11/03/2005 4:46:12 AM PST by
secret garden
(<= easily amused)
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." ![](http://www.nndb.com/people/526/000022460/streisand-bw-sized.jpg)
Eh, no harm, no foul.
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"!
6 posted on
11/03/2005 4:51:42 AM PST by
MortMan
(Eschew Obfuscation)
To: secret garden
To: secret garden
9 posted on
11/03/2005 4:53:27 AM PST by
TheGrimReaper
(No underwear - no skid marks.)
To: secret garden
catcharesis--the ability to nab little monkeys
12 posted on
11/03/2005 4:55:23 AM PST by
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.
13 posted on
11/03/2005 4:56:37 AM PST by
TheGrimReaper
(No underwear - no skid marks.)
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.
15 posted on
11/03/2005 5:00:25 AM PST by
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!
17 posted on
11/03/2005 5:04:27 AM PST by
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
18 posted on
11/03/2005 5:10:19 AM PST by
Texan5
(You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line..)
To: secret garden; Argh; Slip18; patton; Jack Deth; xsmommy; Robert A. Cook, PE; Gabz
Go to pieces.
Your thesis?
Catachesis.
Malaproply,catachresis!
Speechless, ceases.
On that note, I think I have a headache.
25 posted on
11/03/2005 5:17:55 AM PST by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: secret garden
Would the "secure border initiative" be an example of
catachresis or are they finally getting series?
30 posted on
11/03/2005 5:31:23 AM PST by
NeoCaveman
(Confirm Judge Alito now. Yes I am an Alitist)
To: secret garden
Good morning!
catachresis sounds like what the kids were doing for halloween.
31 posted on
11/03/2005 5:33:21 AM PST by
A-10
(Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail us now.)
To: secret garden
32 posted on
11/03/2005 5:34:57 AM PST by
Dutchgirl
("We recognize your right to be an ignorant moron," -Just A. Nobody.)
To: secret garden
Harry Reid's brain--a useless prosthesis
Good for naught but a catachresis
"Shed light on war," he proposed
But the session was closed
He sucks his thumb and has bad enuresis
33 posted on
11/03/2005 5:41:13 AM PST by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
To: secret garden
This word makes me think of Norm Crosby!
52 posted on
11/03/2005 6:50:58 AM PST by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
Socialist instead of socialite - now that is funny!
Good morning
59 posted on
11/03/2005 7:24:28 AM PST by
WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
(Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
To: secret garden
Catachresis.The nice Chinese family across the street is converting from Buddhism, but first they must complete catachresis crass.
86 posted on
11/03/2005 8:47:48 AM PST by
NeoCaveman
(Confirm Judge Alito now. Yes I am an Alitist)
To: secret garden
The mention of Hillary Clinton as a "socialite" rather than "socialist" is to me an even bigger catachresis.
92 posted on
11/03/2005 9:09:24 AM PST by
MoochPooch
(A righteous person worries about his or her behavior, an extremist about everyone else's.)
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