One of my all-time favorite TV shows is "Monty Python"s Flying Circus". I don't think anything has ever made me laugh so much. When I saw the article below, I had to post it because of the combination of content. Figures of speech can be lethal to Netiquette and communication. Remember this article is a parody! Enjoy it and learn from it also!
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And now for something completely different, we call on those
renowned rhetoricians John Cleese, Terry Gilliam,
Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and the unforgivably late Graham
Chapman. Known to fans of British comedy as Monty Python, these six snarky
scholars have contributed more to the field of language studies than--well,
than Benny Hill, for instance.
Appearing in the not-so-new Brand New Monty Python
Papperbok (Methuen, 1973/2007), the "Announcement" not only identifies
over 30 figures of speech but deftly and accurately
illustrates most of them as well.
To assist readers who may not be acquainted with such exotic
figures as hypallage and zeugma, we have conscientiously
annotated the Python team's disquisition with links to definitions and
additional examples in our Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms.
Announcement for People Who Like Figures of Speech
Because of the Anagrams dispute it has been decided to devote the rest of this space to a page specially written for people who like figures of speech, for the not a few fans of litotes, and those with no small interest in meiosis, for the infinite millions of hyperbole-lovers, for those fond of hypallage, and the epithet's golden transfer, for those who fall willingly into the arms of the metaphor, those who give up the ghost, bury their heads in the sand and ride roughshod over the mixed metaphor, and even those of hyperbaton the friends.
It will be, too, for those who reprehend the malapropism; who love the wealth of metonymy; for all friends of rhetoric and syllepsis; and zeugmatists with smiling eyes and hearts. It will bring a large absence of unsatisfactory malevolence to periphrastic fans; a wig harm bello to spoonerists; and in no small measure a not less than splendid greeting to you circumlocutors.
The world adores prosopopeiasts, and the friendly faces of synechdotists, and can one not make those amorous of anacoluthon understand that if they are not satisfied by this, what is to happen to them?
It will attempt to really welcome all splitters of infinitives, all who are Romeo and Juliet to antonomasia, those who drink up similes like sparkling champagne, who lose nothing compared with comparison heads, self-evident axiomists, all pithy aphorists, apothegemists, maximiles, theorists, epigrammatists and even gnomists.
And as for the lovers of aposiopesis--!
It will wish bienvenu to all classical adherents of euphuism, all metathesistic birds, golden paronomasiasts covered in guilt, fallacious paralogists, tropists, anagogists, and anaphorists; to greet, welcome, embrace asyndeton buffs, while the lovers of ellipsis will be well-met and its followers embraced, as will be chronic worshipers of catachresis and supporters of anastrophe the world over.
Because of the Anagrams dispute it has been decided to devote the rest of this space to a page specially written for people who like figures of speech, for the not a few fans of litotes, and those with no small interest in meiosis, for the infinite millions of hyperbole-lovers, for those fond of hypallage, and the epithet's golden transfer, for those who fall willingly into the arms of the metaphor, those who give up the ghost, bury their heads in the sand and ride roughshod over the mixed metaphor, and even those of hyperbaton the friends.
It will be, too, for those who reprehend the malapropism; who love the wealth of metonymy; for all friends of rhetoric and syllepsis; and zeugmatists with smiling eyes and hearts. It will bring a large absence of unsatisfactory malevolence to periphrastic fans; a wig harm bello to spoonerists; and in no small measure a not less than splendid greeting to you circumlocutors.
The world adores prosopopeiasts, and the friendly faces of synechdotists, and can one not make those amorous of anacoluthon understand that if they are not satisfied by this, what is to happen to them?
It will attempt to really welcome all splitters of infinitives, all who are Romeo and Juliet to antonomasia, those who drink up similes like sparkling champagne, who lose nothing compared with comparison heads, self-evident axiomists, all pithy aphorists, apothegemists, maximiles, theorists, epigrammatists and even gnomists.
And as for the lovers of aposiopesis--!
It will wish bienvenu to all classical adherents of euphuism, all metathesistic birds, golden paronomasiasts covered in guilt, fallacious paralogists, tropists, anagogists, and anaphorists; to greet, welcome, embrace asyndeton buffs, while the lovers of ellipsis will be well-met and its followers embraced, as will be chronic worshipers of catachresis and supporters of anastrophe the world over.
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sock puppet marketing from
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Sock
puppet marketing is the use of a fake identity to artificially
stimulate demand for a product, brand or service. A fake online identity
created for marketing purposes is known colloquially as a sock puppet.
Sock
puppet marketing is one example of astroturfing, the practice of artificially
stimulating online buzz about something, while trying to make it appear to be
a grassroots trend. A primary goal of sock puppet marketing is to increase
sales by posting positive comments about a product, service or brand on web
sites. Alternatively, a sock puppet might be used to post negative comments that
denigrate a competitor.============================================
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