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17 Jan 2012, 9:28 pm

I EXPECT THAT YOU COULD MURDER A PIECE OF CHEESE RIGHT NOW.



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17 Jan 2012, 9:31 pm

I DO NOT MURDER; I COLLECT. IN ADDITION, CHEESE DOES NOT LIVE--HOPEFULLY.



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17 Jan 2012, 9:37 pm

(Tsk, tsk, didn't you recognise the reference? Time to reread your Discworld novels..... :P )



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17 Jan 2012, 9:40 pm

THAT SERIES IS OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THE TERM, "LAST FEW YEARS." NEVERTHELESS, I COLLECT BUT DO NOT KILL.



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17 Jan 2012, 9:51 pm

I'm sorry your Aspergre is [sic]. I hope it feels [beter] soon.



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17 Jan 2012, 9:59 pm

jennyishere wrote:
I'm sorry your Aspergre is [sic]. I hope it feels [beter] soon.

Aspergre was taken from an interpretation of Asperger as a third-declension noun. The locative case does, indeed, yield Aspergre just as rex would yield rege or pater patre or mater matre.

"Caesar ad sum iam forte,
Brutus et erat.
Caesar sic in omnibus,
Brutus sic in at."



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17 Jan 2012, 10:08 pm

pun
(noun) A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.



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17 Jan 2012, 10:10 pm

*Self-slap*



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17 Jan 2012, 10:12 pm

I hope you didn't slap yourself TOO hard. After all, it wasn't a very punny pun. :wink:



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17 Jan 2012, 10:15 pm

*Self-slap* was figurative and more of a mental groan.



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17 Jan 2012, 10:19 pm

Oh well, a groan is generally the most appropriate response to a pun.

(Better keep an eye on that non-literal self-harm, though- you might end up with a nasty metaphorical bruise. 8O )



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17 Jan 2012, 10:27 pm

I wonder what that would think like.



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17 Jan 2012, 10:36 pm

Well, if it thought LIKE something, it would be a "simile".



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17 Jan 2012, 10:46 pm

jennyishere wrote:
Well, if it thought LIKE something, it would be a "simile".

We see what a bruise looks like. We feel what a bruise feels like. Sometimes, we even hear what a bruise sounded like. An extension to this would be the following: what does a mental bruise think like?



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17 Jan 2012, 11:22 pm

My neck itches.


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18 Jan 2012, 12:25 am

kevinjh wrote:
jennyishere wrote:
Well, if it thought LIKE something, it would be a "simile".

We see what a bruise looks like. We feel what a bruise feels like. Sometimes, we even hear what a bruise sounded like. An extension to this would be the following: what does a mental bruise think like?


Yes, I understood what you intended by the use of the word "think". I was just pointing out that a simile is LIKE something, whereas a metaphor IS something. We were talking about a metaphorical bruise, not a mental bruise.

Being pedantic is fun, isn't it? :wink: