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1a7962b
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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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suspicion
semantics
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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b12b72c
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Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it? Ford: We're safe. Arthur: Oh good. Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet. Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word that I wasn't previously aware of.
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safety-in-numbers
semantics
safe
wordplay
word
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Douglas Adams |
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9802b67
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"He showed the words "chocolate cake" to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. "Guilt" was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: "celebration."
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politics
chocolate-cake
connotations
word-association
chocolate
semantics
french
food
guilt
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Michael Pollan |
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89d576e
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Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.
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words
semantics
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Cormac McCarthy |
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bb39ab4
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously three old owls on a chest of drawers were screwing the daughter of the doctor. But then the mother called them, colorless green ideas slepp furiously.
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irony
poetry
sestina
linguistics
semantics
pastiche
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Umberto Eco |
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77caca3
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"...and often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?"
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semantics
unintentional-humor
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Grace Metalious |