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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007contextual example
I am searching for a definition of a "contextual example." (Please don't say "an example in context.) ;-) Also what is the rule for simple phrasing of a contextual example. Jo > I am searching for a definition of a "contextual example." (Please > don't say "an example in context.) ;-) > > Also what is the rule for simple phrasing of a contextual example. > > Jo Ok, I won't say it! Dah, dee, dah ..... It is, but I won't say it .... Dum de dum de .... Don't know that there is (or could be) a rule (I still haven't said it). [Whistles tunelessly like they always do in detective novels] Aaagh, no, I can't stand it .... it's an example in context. I'm sorry, but it just is! >I am searching for a definition of a "contextual example." (Please > don't say "an example in context.) ;-) > > Also what is the rule for simple phrasing of a contextual example. > > Jo Repeating your first post once may indicate a posting glitch, but repeating it down thread may mean you're trolling, which is kinder in supposition than suspecting imbecility. As Liebs wrote before me, try a Google search. Do you know how to do that? Joanne (not your namesake) > <joanne__king@hotmail.com> wrote in message [...] > Joanne > (not your namesake) I'm intrigued. Which one of you isn't really called Joanne? Or is neither? Or are neither?  SignatureMike. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com >> <joanne__king@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [...] [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I'm intrigued. Which one of you isn't really called Joanne? Or is > neither? Or are neither? I don't know about the OP, but a Google search of my name will lead to my articles and other writings online, my Yahoo Group, DIA, and other things consistent with my online persona, although I am tempted to chastise your challenge as silly. Joanne is common enough as a given name. Why shouldn't there be a user with a hotmail account? I closed mine last year, however, and it was under my cousin's name, due to an old flame war in which I was too emotionally invested. Joanne the First (nah nah) > >> <joanne__king@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > [...] [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Joanne the First (nah nah) http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=namesake http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=52877&dict=CALD http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/namesake?view=uk SignatureBob Lieblich The one and only >> >> <joanne__king@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> > [...] [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/namesake?view=uk Your point being what Bob? I was engaging in my usual sarcasm, but then, as I seem to recall, you rarely understand my posts. Joanne > >> >> <joanne__king@hotmail.com> wrote in message > >> > [...] [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Your point being what Bob? I was engaging in my usual sarcasm, but then, as > I seem to recall, you rarely understand my posts. I guess I should have snipped something, but I couldn't figure out what to snip last time, and once again I can't figure out what to snip. About ten lines down from the top of this post you'll see that you signed a post "Joanne "(ot your namesake), plainly addressing another person named Joanne. Mike then posted a jocular remark whose point you completely missed, as is evident from your comments following it. You missed Mike's point because you were unaware of the full definition of "namesake," which can and often does mean nothing more than "someone with the same name." If you go back and reread the sequence of posts with awareness of that definition, it should become clear why Mike said what he said and why your reply was a non sequitur. There, that wasn't all that hard, was it? SignatureBob Lieblich Who knows of no other Bob Lieblich anywhere in the world >> >> >> <joanne__king@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> >> > [...] [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > You missed Mike's point because you were unaware of the full > definition of "namesake," You assume I was unaware, and that I was not engaged in irony myself. Joanne > >> >> >> <joanne__king@hotmail.com> wrote in message > >> >> > [...] [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] > > You assume I was unaware, and that I was not engaged in irony myself. I've no recollection of ever detecting irony from you, Joanne. Whether that's because you never use it or because my irony detector is defective I couldn't say. I certainly didn't take for irony the particular remark that triggered my post, and I still don't. I suppose I could be wrong -- wouldn't be the first time. Or maybe it's that you aimed at irony and missed. If anyone else out there is still awake, they can decide for themselves. SignatureBob Lieblich Who *has* aimed at irony and missed > > >> >> >> <joanne__king@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > >> >> > [...] [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > >> >> > > >> >> Joanne the First (nah nah) http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=namesake > > >> > http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=52877&dict=CALD > > >> > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > that you aimed at irony and missed. If anyone else out there is still > awake, they can decide for themselves. Helpful as ever, I'll leave the chain of discourse unsnipped. But I'll rest content that one reader knew what I meant, even if the direct interlocutrix apparently didn't. Don't sweat it, Joanne: takes years to build a vocabulary. Why, I myself have sometimes had trouble even over "irony" and "sarcasm" SignatureMike. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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