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Posted by Jim E-H on 14 February 2008 @ 5pm

I know the meaning of three of them off the top of my head. The other two, well, I’ll have to find a dictionary.

Posted by Sarabeth on 14 February 2008 @ 5pm

Bonus points if you know homeoteleuton. If you can drop homeoteleuton in a poetry class, you’ll achieve a sort of “rock star” status.

Posted by Sam on 14 February 2008 @ 7pm

Command-Control-D to the rescue! Although apparently the online OED doesn’t know what “paritactic” means, either.

Posted by Brian J. Geiger on 14 February 2008 @ 7pm

That’s because it’s paratactic.

Posted by Kaveh on 14 February 2008 @ 7pm

Looks like Mac OS X doesn’t know “paratactic,” either. But thanks for the spelling correction, Kaveh. That’s what I get for tapping out a blog entry on my iPhone while walking back to work. :)

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 14 February 2008 @ 9pm

That’s what I get for tapping out a blog entry on my iPhone while walking back to work. :)

Oh, Waldo, you’re so cool! ;)

Posted by Dan Kachur on 14 February 2008 @ 11pm

I conjecture that your professor uses aureate palaver to augment the appraised merit of your edification. :-) Brian, try looking up “parataxis.” That might work.

Posted by TLPatten on 15 February 2008 @ 8am

I know and use “explicate”, I know “trope”, I have a vague sense of both “quotidian” and “discursive”, and “paratactic” is a complete mystery.

Posted by Tim McCormack on 16 February 2008 @ 1am