Quoting Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > This is euphemism. snip Which reminds me. The last time I was at Hemingway's in T.O, I spent a long night with some profs and students discussing the difference between synechdoche and metonomy (sp?). Because of the nature of that evening, I find I no longer have that interesting distinction available to me. I remember at the time thinking it's a useful distinction to understand since it applies to a wide variety of cases. I know it's something Gadamer would be interested in, since it has something to do with parts and wholes. Could anybody explain this fine distinction to a non-literary kind of guy? As I delve deeper into my meory of that same evening, I recall that after what I think was our fourth round of malts and ales, we discussed the meanings of a number of Russian terms which the students claimed would be very impressive when used in a term paper. Used correctly, that is. I'm not sure I remember what they all mean, but surely if anybody's interested, the resources of this list are more than ample for the task. (Yes, I'm still snowed in and bored to tears.) I hope I'm getting the spelling right. 1. ex cathedra 2. deus ex machina 3. apriori 4. aposteriori 5. lingua franca 6. ad hominem 7. quid pro quo 8. ipso facto (not a magical incantation from A.L. Weber's *Cats*) 9. post hoc propter hoc 10. mens rea 11. womens rea 12. in cognito ergo sum 13. pace 14. ad hoc 15 hic up 15. arete (Not French for "Stop.") 16. eo ipso Then, as I recall, around 2 am, some of the the profs took it up a notch. Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum! 13. bonitas moralis (No, he didn't play for the Chicago Cubs) 14. littera legis 15. sapere audi (hint: something to do with knowing about high performance cars.) 16. in foro humano 17. exercitia coelestica (hint: the albino monk in *The Da Vinci Code*) 18. facultates sexuales 19. vaga libido (I'm not making this up.) 20. Gospodsi, Gospodsi, pomiluy nas. (This one really is Russian.) 21. Eloi, Eloi, llama sabarachtini. 22. peccatilla 23. odium religiosum 24. Paideusis 25. erotetic method (No, it's not what you think!) 26. Sittlichkeit (in differentiation from Moralitaet) Wait! I think I hear a plough. Must run. Freedom may be just around the corner. Cheers, Walter Walter Okshevsky Department of Terminology for Term Papers Umberto Ecco School of Symbology Duluth, Iowa, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html