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| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
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| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
972.0. "self-referential words --selfonyms?" by STOHUB::SLBLUZ::BROCKUS (I'm the NRA.) Thu Jun 04 1992 09:31
I have searched and searched, both titles and using the SEARCH command, and
must resort to asking...
There was a discussion, either here or in the GRAMMAR conference, about
"words" which describe what they are.
"Word" is a word.
"TLA" is a TLA. Etc.
I could not find the note, and now a coworker asked me what the term was
to describe this phenomenon of self-reference.
Could someone please provide me with a pointer to the correct note? I will
appreciate your efforts, and be grateful. (How's that for avoiding the
hated "Thanks in advance"?)
JPB
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 972.1 | 635 | SHALOT::ANDERSON | Have another day! | Thu Jun 04 1992 10:01 | 0 |
| 972.2 | | AOSG::ELKINS | Let the silence find us | Thu Jun 04 1992 15:30 | 2 |
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"Polysyllabic" is polysyllabic.
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| 972.3 | | AOSG::ELKINS | Let the silence find us | Thu Jun 04 1992 15:38 | 14 |
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How about self-referential phrases? It's called quining.
When you quine a phrase you take a phrase and quote it
before you write it. Some quined phrases are self-referential:
"Contains three words" contains three words.
"Is not a phrase well formulated" is not a phrase well formulated.
"When quined yields a tortoise's love song" when quined yields a
tortoise's love song."
Adam
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| 972.4 | | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Partially sage, and rarely on time | Thu Jun 04 1992 17:33 | 6 |
| "William van Orman" quined yields William van Orman Quine.
(or something to that effect.)
:-)
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| 972.5 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad. | Thu Jun 04 1992 19:29 | 5 |
| "Homological" is homological. But is "heterological" homological or
heterological?
(And the word that .0 wanted to look for was "homological" or perhaps
"homologous".)
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