Dyscoprotaxis
Since 2016 Giorgio Coniglio, site editor-in-chief and a registered pseudonym, has been bundling HUMOUR, PARODY, WORDPLAY, PHOTOGRAPHY and POETRY, with the sole aim of entertaining YOU with presentations at the rate of 3x per month. Most posts are a compilation of 8 illustrated short poems, often in the limerick format. The related blog "DAILY ILLUSTRATED NONSENSE" sends out items from these collections one-at-a-time.
Sunday 15 January 2023
Grandpa Greg's Advanced Grammar: NEOLOGISMS (personal), in progress
Dyscoprotaxis
Tuesday 10 January 2023
Poetic NON-SEQUITURS #2
almost kosher
Doggy bag
Thursday 5 January 2023
Grandpa Greg's Advanced Grammar: (re)DUPLICATIONS, part #1
Authors' Note: Reduplications as they are best known, sometimes also called duplications, are language forms (morphs), usually for nouns, in which an element of the word is repeated with little or no change; they figure prominently among the most musical elements in English and in other languages. To this author, the more commonly used term seems redundant.
The disparaging term gobbledegook was first used in 1944 by a Texas politician named Maverick (scion of the original staunchly independent thinker). Its meaning — pompous, overinflated language — gave rise a few year later to the equivalent bafflegab. These expressions, employing repetition of sounds, have a musical and amusing quality, as do their venerable synonyms --hogwash, poppycock, balderdash, bunkum and tommyrot, but only their close cousin claptrap (alternately clap-trap) -- would qualify as a reduplication.
Another view of wordplay competitions in Palindrome Valley can be found HERE.
fuddle-duddle: an infrequently used (re)duplication, voiced dismissively in dealing with opinions that the speaker rejects.
In 1971 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, father of current PM Justin Trudeau, unleashed a minor scandal by using unparliamentary language in the Canadian House of Commons (parliament). A portion of the ensuing brouhaha, deftly sidestepped by Trudeau, revolved around whether he had actually spoken or merely mouthed the inappropriate words.
Web discussion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuddle_duddle
SONGS about REDUPLICATIONS!
For more intriguing verses about "(re)DUPLICATIONS", please proceed to part #2 by clicking HERE.