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Somehow, American writers (and readers) associate all things French with money, pretense, and culture. It’s quite the mix of responses, a “love-hate” relationship with France. If you want a character with class, or one completely without class, French is a wonderful tool. affaire de coeur - love affair au contraire - to the contrary au fait - possessing practical knowledge of a thing au revoir - until we meet again autre temps, autres moeurs - other times, other customs avec plaisir - with pleasure bête noire - a thing especially disliked bon jour - good day; hello bon soir - goodnight bourgeoisie - middle-class, materialistic c’est-à-dire - that is to say c’est la vie - such is life chacun à son goût - each to his own taste coup de grâce - death blow coûte que coûte - cost what it cost dégagé - without emotional links de trop - too much or too many dernier ressort - last option Dieu avec nous - God is with us.
List of forms of word play. This is a list of techniques used in word play with Wikipedia articles.
Techniques that involve the phonetic values of words Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) ase as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning. The term is often used to refer specifically to mishearings of song lyrics (cf. soramimi).Onomatopoeia: a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describingRhyme: a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words Alliteration: matching consonants sounds at the beginning of wordsAssonance: matching vowel soundsConsonance: matching consonant soundsHolorime: a rhyme that encompasses an entire line or phraseSpoonerism: a switch of two sounds in two different words (cf. sananmuunnos)Janusism: the use of phonetics to create a humorous word (e.g.
GAYsha from Geisha)) Techniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words Techniques that involve the manipulation of the entire sentence or passage. The 10 Types of Writers' Block (and How to Overcome Them) Markovian Parallax Denigrate. It's their ways to detain, their ways to disgrace, their knee in your balls and their fist in your face.
Yes and long live the state by whoever it's made, sir, I didn't see nothing, I was just getting home late. - Leonard Cohen On August 5, 1996, Usenet groups were spammed by messages of seemingly random word strings, "sometimes numbering in the thousands in a single posting," under the subject line "Markovian Parallax Denigrate": jitterbugging McKinley Abe break Newtonian inferringcaw update Cohen air collaborate ruesportswriting rococo invocate tousle shadflowerDebby Stirling pathogenesis escritoire adventitious novoITT most chairperson Dwight Hertzog differentpinpoint dunk McKinley pendant firelight Uranusepisodic medicine ditty craggy flogging variacbrotherhood Webb impromptu file countenance inheritancecohesion refrigerate morphine napkin inland Janeironameable yearbook hark....
I imagine that night the data stream must have been thick with reports of Usenet abuse. Achtung! The Swedish Rhapsody Numbers Station.