Words you will never need, no. 13243
May. 8th, 2003 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
radegundNever let it be said that my work is irrelevant! From today's proof: homoioteleuton.
Anyone? Anyone?
Yes, that's right, it's the phenomenon of similar endings in words that are near each other or that perform parallel functions in a sentence. It can cause havoc in your medieval scribal workshop, you see, as the scribe's attention alternates between original and copy, leading to skipped phrases and all sorts of carry on.
Read all about it.
Anyone? Anyone?
Yes, that's right, it's the phenomenon of similar endings in words that are near each other or that perform parallel functions in a sentence. It can cause havoc in your medieval scribal workshop, you see, as the scribe's attention alternates between original and copy, leading to skipped phrases and all sorts of carry on.
Read all about it.
