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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear George!<br>
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Happy New Year to you too and also to all the members of the lexicography list.<br>
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I looked at your last example <br>
‘Elle [Danièle] était pulpeuse, sensuelle, protestante’ (‘She was pulpy,
sensual, Protestant’)<br>
and contemplated, could it be that the meaning of the adjective 'protestante' here is not a <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Protestant, but a Participle Present
from 'protester'.<br>
Also in this case it is not going along with the row of attributes pulpeuse,
sensuelle.<br>
But I think 'a Protestant' is little bit shocking.<br>
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I remember studying zeugma in classical rhetorics, and I never doubted that this figure</p><p class="MsoNormal">could be transferred into a modern language. In English, I encountered it mostly in jokes</p><p class="MsoNormal">and in comic language. The same comic effect it produces in Russian.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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All the best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hayim Y. Sheynin<o:p></o:p></p>
<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; padding-left: 5px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: "Aubin, George (Mod & Class Languages)" <gaubin@assumption.edu><br>To: lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com<br>Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2008 2:30:12 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Lexicog] yoked<br><br>
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</p><p><font size="2">Hi, Everyone!<br>
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Happy New Year!<br>
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Under the entry for ‘zeugma, zeugme’ in the French on-line dictionary, ‘Le Trésor de la Langue Française Automatisé’, the observation is made that French grammarians consider zeugmas to be incorrect, in spite of the fact that examples can be found in authors of the stature of Flaubert: ‘Je trouve les vers plus tendres que la prose et qu’ils font bien mieux pleurer’ (‘I find verse more tender than prose and that it makes one cry much better’). Such zeugmas are defended as giving flexibility and liveliness to the expression of thought.<br>
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Further, as in the original example from the Mellows, the syntax of some zeugmas is partially concealed: ‘Elle [Danièle] était pulpeuse, sensuelle, protestante’ (‘She was pulpy, sensual, Protestant’), in which the first two adjectives are from one meaning register and the third adjective from a totally different one. Perhaps this trait of partial concealment might also help to explain their attractiveness ...<br>
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George<br>
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George F. Aubin, Ph.D.<br>
Professor Emeritus, French and Linguistics<br>
Assumption College<br>
Worcester, MA 01609-1296<br>
E-mail: gaubin@assumption. edu</font>
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