Courtesy of Slate and this article on inaugural addresses, combined with the mentioning of vocabulary in yesterday's review, I bring you the word chiasmus. It means, "a grammatical figure by which the order of words in one of two of parallel clauses is inverted in the other" (Oxford English Dictionary) (via www.chiasmus.com because I am lazy).
It even gets its own website, http://www.chiasmus.com.
Anyways, it's pretty awesome and I realized that chiasmi (what an awesome plural!) provide some of my favorite jokes and quotes:
and park on a driveway?"
-- Richard Lederer
"He does not possess wealth;
it possesses him."
That's all for now. Hope that provides sufficient erudition until I can thinking of something original.
it possesses him."
-- Ben Franklin
That's all for now. Hope that provides sufficient erudition until I can thinking of something original.
posted by fulsome @ 11:22 AM
