| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 20, 2002, 22:04 |
John Cowan writes: oir itself > animate. So what we have here is a mild anacoluthon and > synecdoche (reverse synecdoche? I forget) involving using Actually, according to my dictionaries synecdoche refers both to the part standing for the whole _and_ the whole standing for the part, so the reverse of synecdoche is synecdoche.