Analogies and metaphors are two of my favorite things in writing and conversation. There are times when I lose myself trying to think up funny and witty statements that contradict themselves and make me think twice. I figure that I'll have an entire collection of things to bring up at lunchtime to crack a joke with the daily crew, but I digress. As an unprofessional writer, I learned a new word today: catachresis. It is what you write when you combine an analogy with a metaphor; as if, your goal is to deliberately misuse a word in order to create a metaphor with a little wit. When overused, a catachresis can become a replacement for the regular word used to describe a scenario, as seen in slang or with nicknames. Examples: - My illness is so chronic that my doctor's mediations did jack and shit.
- Last night, it was a bloated moon.
- Shirley eats so much junk that I've started calling her Surly. So, here I am, thinking of synonyms, antonyms, similes, metaphors, etc.; and I started with the figure of speech words themselves for wordplay. Metaphor can be changed around as a catechresis, but I couldn't think of a funny change to the prefix 'meta-' to worth my while. 'Meta-', it turns out, is defined as 'all encompassing', 'ambient', 'higher level', so as to have some underlying meaning. The word metaphor could be played off with 'ur-'aphor, as in the 'aboriginal', 'original' (coincidentally), 'first level' ... '-aphor'. Now, we're talking geek speak. What is the opposite of meta? When you describe an idea as 'meta-something', as in metadata or metaphysical, you're saying that it is a part of that stem-word. If we want to say that something isn't a part of the stem-word, do we say "protophysical"? "Urdata"? "Non-metaphysical"? Sounds too weird. In slang, being 'meta' is 'being cool', like you're 'with the in crowd'. We could go by that... and say it's uncool to be physical. But that wouldn't be right. I'm stumped, that's all. </thoughts>
- Last night, it was a bloated moon.
- Shirley eats so much junk that I've started calling her Surly. So, here I am, thinking of synonyms, antonyms, similes, metaphors, etc.; and I started with the figure of speech words themselves for wordplay. Metaphor can be changed around as a catechresis, but I couldn't think of a funny change to the prefix 'meta-' to worth my while. 'Meta-', it turns out, is defined as 'all encompassing', 'ambient', 'higher level', so as to have some underlying meaning. The word metaphor could be played off with 'ur-'aphor, as in the 'aboriginal', 'original' (coincidentally), 'first level' ... '-aphor'. Now, we're talking geek speak. What is the opposite of meta? When you describe an idea as 'meta-something', as in metadata or metaphysical, you're saying that it is a part of that stem-word. If we want to say that something isn't a part of the stem-word, do we say "protophysical"? "Urdata"? "Non-metaphysical"? Sounds too weird. In slang, being 'meta' is 'being cool', like you're 'with the in crowd'. We could go by that... and say it's uncool to be physical. But that wouldn't be right. I'm stumped, that's all. </thoughts>
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