Re: MISC: Internet Media Type registration: proposed TAG finding

I can't help thinking that our problem is rhetoric and not 
technology.  From [1]:

>synecdoche
>[Latin synecdoche, from Greek synekdoche, from synekdechesthai 'to 
>receive jointly', from syn 'with' and ekdechesthai 'to receive', 
>from ek 'out' and dechesthai 'to receive'.] Rhetoric A figure of 
>speech which a part is put for the whole (fifty sail for fifty 
>ships), the whole for a part (the smiling year for spring), the 
>species for the genus (cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the 
>species (a creature for a man), the name of the material for the 
>thing made, etc. See TROPE.
>
>
>trope
>[French or Latin; French trope, from Latin tropus, from Greek tropos 
>'a turning', 'turn'; akin to Greek trope 'a turn', trepein 'to 
>turn', Sanskrit trapate 'he is ashamed', 'he turns away', and 
>probably to Latin turpis 'foul', 'base'. Cf. TROPHY, TROPIC, 
>TURPITUDE.] 5. Rhetoric The use of a word or expression in a 
>different sense from that which properly belongs to it, for giving 
>life or emphasis to an idea; also, an instance of such use; a figure 
>of speech. Tropes are chiefly four kinds: metaphor, metonymy, 
>synecdoche, and irony.

[1] http://www.earnestspeakers.com/figuresofspeech.html
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Received on Thursday, 30 May 2002 15:23:06 UTC