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hiromichi
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 Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: palilogy |
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I do not understand why "in threes" in the definition below. What are threes?
"In his writing Hugh was fond of summing up with a palilogy, the deliberate repetition of words and grammatical presentations, a sort of parallelism in threes."
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asterix
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A parallelism is a function of two, In threes means in groups or formations of three... So, I guess Hugh likes to finish his summaries with the repetition done three times...
Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!
Bang, Bang, Bang.
They shall not prevail! They shall not prevail! They shall not prevail!
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hiromichi
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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asterix, I get it. Thank you very much.
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