Anti-Antimeria, No More? (Limerick)
A Slate language column by Katy Waldman has me re-thinking my anti-antimeria stance. (Antimeria is a “rhetorical device that repurposes a word as a different part of speech than usual.”)
Her column makes some solid points about antimeria’s advantages. In fact, the device may even prove to be handy for humor writing.
Katy’s viewpoint may generate frowns:
Turning nouns into verbs, verbs to nouns
Is extolled by that writer.
Though some may indict ’er,
The thought ain’t as bad as it soun’s.
Tags: Antimeria, Language Humor, Language Limerick, Writing & Publishing Humor
Hmmm… Antimeria, eh? I learn something new every day around here…
When verbal has gone diarrhea
And nouning’s a real bad idea
My family of words
Is as useless as turds
My grampa and grammar
Just stutter and stammer
And Father and Mother
Keep searching verb Brother
Though Uncle’s in town
He won’t help me verb noun
So I call upon Anti Meria.
(I know I know… I broke the golden rule of limerick writing… so shoot me now! …well, there’s always the ‘delete’ button…