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On 16 Jun 2001 08:41:03 -0400, Steve Tinney wrote: > On Saturday 16 June 2001 04:32 am, Rick Jelliffe wrote: > > Is it "metathesis" where a part is substitution for the whole (like "sail" > > being used for ship)? It is just a normal part of English. So we cannot > > synecdoche Which is really too bad, since I wanted to leap to "metastasize". http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/pdq_html/glossary/metastasize.html Rick again: > So we cannot > expect people won't use XML for the whole thing. That confusion > between poetical use and the specific use cannot be banished. Though I think it's pretty easy to suggest that organizations which encourage such synecdoche deserve to be reproached for it, especially when such synecdoche appears to exclude other potentially useful projects.
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