[Ads-l] "Lose complete control" and its ilk

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On May 25, 2017, at 11:08 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
> adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > The term mentioned previously was "hypallage".
> >
> > http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2007-
> October/075227.html
> >
> > [Begin excerpt from 2007 message]
> > Cris Collinsworth on NBC, discussing a big fumble, remarked that "it
> > turned the complete game around", i.e. turned the game completely
> > around.
> >
> > (In an earlier discussion over the summer re "dodged a narrow
> > bullet", Arnold reminded us this is called or transferred
> > epithets.  Somehow it strikes me as especially odd when the adverb
> > transfer to modify a definite, as above.)
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > Here is a link to a germane Language Log post by Arnold Zwicky:
> > http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005186.html
> >
>
> Thanks, Garson!  Exactly what I was trying to dredge up.  I suspected
> Arnold might have been involved, but I didn’t know how to find the relevant
> thread.  “No extramarital toes sucked”—how could I have forgotten?  And the
> trope I was trying to recall was indeed “hypallage”.  Well, I did remember
> it was Greek…


A bit more from me in 2009 (I included Arnold's "extramarital toes," of
course)...

https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/hyping-hypallage/

--bgz

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