What literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?
What literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?
For me it is Mondegreen: which is a misheard lyric, word or phrase that becomes popular and gives it new meaning.
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Tmesis, because you can make some unf*ckingbelievable words with it.
In linguistics this is called expletive infixation. It's a good example of the inherent grammar of language that we are never directly taught but know anyway. For example, we know fanfuckingtastic is correct but fantafuckingstic is wrong.
But also fantasfuckingtastic seems fine, to me. Just one letter moved.
Fantastastic?
Hmm. I really struggled to type that and now I know why. Clearly my brain knew something was wrong but my conscious mi d was not seeing it
I had an Austin Powers shirt with lines similar to: 'fanf*ckingtastic' all over it , lol. There is a word for everything.
A tmesis T, awesome!