Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:03:20 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: not anaphora, not syllepsis


George Trail wrote:
> 
> >When it's time to go, it's time to go.
> >
> >Polysemous recursion?
> >
> >How about:
> >
> >When it's time to go, it's time to go to Togo?
> >
> >
> >Eric
> 
> Recursion (as I understand it) demands that there is a change after or as a
> condition of the reiteration, and as such it differs from both recurrence
> and reiteration (either of which words would seem to me to serve admirably
> as replacements for the banal "repetition."
> 
> So, how about polysemous reiteration? Reiteration seems to me better than
> recurrence in that I associate a recurrence with something that "happens"
> and a reiteration with something that is done deliberately.
> 
> Yes? He queried hopefully,
> g


How about an pseudo-amphigorous reiteration?

amphigory • \AM-fuh-gore-ee\ • (noun): a nonsense verse or composition : a
rigmarole with apparent meaning which proves to be meaningless.

Ciao,
Reg


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