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To: knarf

Not this one again!

This word was made up by someone a few years ago. Why? Perhaps to see just how many people would be taken in. I guess he is enjoying his Internet fame.


16 posted on 11/27/2012 8:31:34 AM PST by Bigg Red (Sorry, Mr. Franklin, I guess we couldn't keep it.)
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To: Bigg Red
Yep

SOMEONE had to name it 'cause it had been floating around for a couple o'millenia


Etymology

"Paraprosdokian" comes from Greek "παρά", meaning "against" and "προσδοκία", meaning "expectation". Canadian linguist and etymology author William Gordon Casselman argues that, while the word is now in wide circulation, "paraprosdokian" (or "paraprosdokia") is not a term of classical (or medieval) Greek or Latin rhetoric, but a late 20th century neologism.[2][3] However, it occurs—with the same meaning—in Greek rhetorical writers of the 1st century BCE and the 1st and 2nd centuries CE.[4][5][6][7]

17 posted on 11/27/2012 8:36:24 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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