"Wherefore" means "why", not "where". See: http://www.allshakespeare.com/quotes/256
---- Original Message ----- From: "Roberto Halais Kareh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 4:37 PM Subject: Re: oxymora, proper and improper > Darell, wherefore art thou? > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of john gilmore > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 9:03 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: oxymora, proper and improper > > > Volker Bandke has asked for citations for my distinction between proper and > improper oxymora. > Very well. From, for example, the Wikipedia On-Line Encyclopedia (which is > reachable by googling 'oxymoron'): > > >An oxymoron (plural "oxymora") (noun) is a figure of speech that combines > >two normally contradictory terms (e.g. "deafening silence"). Oxymoron is a > >Greek term derived from oxy ("sharp") and moros ("dull"). Oxymora are a > >proper subset of the expressions called contradiction > in terms. What > >distinguishes oxymora from other paradoxes and contradictions is that they > >are used intentionally, for rhetorical effect, and the contradiction is > >only apparent, as the combination > of terms provides a novel expression of > >some concept. > > which is a szuitably elementary discussion. > > The notion of 'a novel expression of some concept' is of course problematic > when it is viewed diachronically; but it is important to remember that > 'deafening silence' was once, perhaps in Cicero's time, a fresh and novel > expression. (Or again, he may have borrowed it from a Greek text known to > him and lost to us.) > > John Gilmore > Ashland, MA 01721 > USA > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
