| [Vaillant 3.0] Friday, October 01, 2010 8:23:55 AM | |
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Hmmm...hyperbaton. Nice answer, although Chuck Norris is the best answer to any question!! HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now then...how about another riddle?
(Please excuse my crappy poetry skills)
I am the falling star,
I burn the sky and ground.
Man was lost and found,
bewildered by Heaven's scar.
Man awaits an ancient fate,
a united, melting mass,
by my hand a brand new age,
an age of fire, shall pass.
Who (or what) am I? |
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| [acolyte55] Friday, October 01, 2010 12:34:08 AM | |
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| damn that was my second guess guido lol |
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| [guidogodoy] Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:20:23 PM | |
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Aha! Partial credit! Grammatical inversion is one of many forms of displacement. It does answer the question as syntax is, indeed, displaced in the examples I gave. However, the part that isn't addressed by the simple answer of "inversion" (whereby natural word-order or phrasing is simply inverted / displaced) is when such it is used to emphasize certain words as is common to lines of poetry or song lyrics.
When this rhetorical device is used via poetic license for specific effect such as emphasis or rhyme, the transposition is called hyperbaton.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by acolyte55 from Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:05:17 PM)| |  | acolyte55 wrote: | | | is the answer grammatical inversion? |
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| [_strat_] Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:21:36 PM | |
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Yeah, me too. Maybe then I will find out what the question was.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:05:02 PM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Can't wait to see the answer to this riddle.  |
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| [_strat_] Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:20:58 PM | |
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The answer is Chuck Norris.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Wednesday, September 29, 2010 5:16:48 PM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | Hey, I posed the question. If you have an answer then, by all means, post away!
| | | acolyte55 wrote: | | | i had to look it up and could stil lbe wrong i will post it if yuor ok with it guido? |
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| [acolyte55] Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:05:17 PM | |
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| is the answer grammatical inversion? |
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:05:02 PM | |
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| Can't wait to see the answer to this riddle. |
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| [guidogodoy] Wednesday, September 29, 2010 5:16:48 PM | |
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Hey, I posed the question. If you have an answer then, by all means, post away!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by acolyte55 from Wednesday, September 29, 2010 5:09:40 PM)| | | acolyte55 wrote: | | | i had to look it up and could stil lbe wrong i will post it if yuor ok with it guido? |
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| [acolyte55] Wednesday, September 29, 2010 5:09:40 PM | |
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| i had to look it up and could stil lbe wrong i will post it if yuor ok with it guido? |
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| [guidogodoy] Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:43:31 PM | |
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No, but that is pretty darn good. Only problem is that there ARE no participles in a sentence like "to you I creep." A dangling participle (past or present) usually refers to one that is used when the antecedent isn't clear.
For example: "SCREAMING for vengeance, Guido listened to Halford." - The person who is screaming isn't clear.
Nonplussed, Freeze continues to remain silent on this subject. No ambiguity there! Bwwwahaaaaaa!!!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by acolyte55 from Wednesday, September 29, 2010 1:35:27 PM)| | | acolyte55 wrote: | | | dangling parcipals? |
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| [acolyte55] Wednesday, September 29, 2010 1:35:27 PM | |
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| [METALMANJP] Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:29:38 AM | |
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You just smoked my brain ? I have no clue and I slaughter the English Language every chance I get.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Tuesday, September 28, 2010 8:58:41 AM) |
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| [guidogodoy] Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:36:12 PM | |
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HAAA!! Prudent decision.
I'll just go back to holding my breath about my first question. Where are the writers / poets here in our merry group?
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Budred from Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:32:21 PM)| | | Budred wrote: | | I was going to come back with "No, I've always paid the syntax" but I really don't want to carry this on.
I don't want a single person thinking this is what I do. I love my wife. See the Love Thread. (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Tuesday, September 28, 2010 5:58:43 PM)
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So, I am to understand that you'd know how to make a hormone? LOL!!!
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You guys are too advanced for me, I'm just a simple man.
I thought syntax was when you had to pay for a prostitute.(LOL) Edited at: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:08:18 AM |
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| [Budred] Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:32:21 PM | |
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I was going to come back with "No, I've always paid the syntax" but I really don't want to carry this on.
I don't want a single person thinking this is what I do. I love my wife. See the Love Thread. [Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Tuesday, September 28, 2010 5:58:43 PM)
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So, I am to understand that you'd know how to make a hormone? LOL!!!
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You guys are too advanced for me, I'm just a simple man.
I thought syntax was when you had to pay for a prostitute.(LOL) Edited at: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:08:18 AM |
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| [spapad] Tuesday, September 28, 2010 8:54:24 PM | |
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Straight forward way is to kick her in the ass!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Tuesday, September 28, 2010 5:58:43 PM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | So, I am to understand that you'd know how to make a hormone? LOL!!!
| | | Budred wrote: | | You guys are too advanced for me, I'm just a simple man.
I thought syntax was when you had to pay for a prostitute.(LOL)
Edited at: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:08:18 AM |
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| [HOT ROCKIN' METAL GODDESS] Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:17:31 PM | |
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[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Tuesday, September 28, 2010 5:58:43 PM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | So, I am to understand that you'd know how to make a hormone? LOL!!!
| | | Budred wrote: | | You guys are too advanced for me, I'm just a simple man.
I thought syntax was when you had to pay for a prostitute.(LOL)
Edited at: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:08:18 AM |
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| [guidogodoy] Tuesday, September 28, 2010 5:58:43 PM | |
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So, I am to understand that you'd know how to make a hormone? LOL!!!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Budred from Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:06:29 AM)| | | Budred wrote: | | You guys are too advanced for me, I'm just a simple man.
I thought syntax was when you had to pay for a prostitute.(LOL)
Edited at: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:08:18 AM |
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| [Budred] Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:06:29 AM | |
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You guys are too advanced for me, I'm just a simple man.
I thought syntax was when you had to pay for a prostitute.(LOL)
Edited at: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:08:18 AM |
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| [guidogodoy] Tuesday, September 28, 2010 8:58:41 AM | |
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No. A "rhyme scheme" is a simple ABABCC (for example ) sort of straight-forward organization. It does not mix standard "subject, verb, object" syntax.
Nice attempt. Try again.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by METALMANJP from Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:27:34 AM)| | | METALMANJP wrote: | | Rhyming Scheme ?
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | You know, for all the times I have seen and answered riddles in this thread I don't think I have seen more than a handful of posts that have followed the actual topic: riddles about Priest. That said, here is one:
What do you call it when song lyrics or lines of poetry are taken out of normal syntax to maintain rhyme? For example, Love Bites:
Into your room
Where in deep sleep
There you lie still
To you I creep (vs. I creep to you)
Then I descend
Close to your lips
Across you I bend (vs. I bend across you)
You smile as I sip |
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| [METALMANJP] Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:27:34 AM | |
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Rhyming Scheme ?
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Monday, September 27, 2010 5:59:30 PM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | You know, for all the times I have seen and answered riddles in this thread I don't think I have seen more than a handful of posts that have followed the actual topic: riddles about Priest. That said, here is one:
What do you call it when song lyrics or lines of poetry are taken out of normal syntax to maintain rhyme? For example, Love Bites:
Into your room
Where in deep sleep
There you lie still
To you I creep (vs. I creep to you)
Then I descend
Close to your lips
Across you I bend (vs. I bend across you)
You smile as I sip |
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