18 August, 2018

"In the spirit of avoiding trite wording, I overshot the middle ground by producing something contrived and loaded with grammatical syllepsis." A friend once said, perhaps not in those exact words.

[insert here sad emoji]

This would lead anyone to cradle a tub of ice cream—

[There always seems to be an issue of some sort that arises when writing something? Grammar, vocabulary, perhaps the story isn't interesting enough in your opinion, or 'that description there, it doesn't quite cut it, does it'? When it came to vocabulary, I just placed the first word I was thinking of and to hell with it. Grammar and I—though—have a couple of meetings on Sundays, there's a lot we need to discuss. I do place a flurry of syllepsis occasionally.]

Likewise, it's caused me to have some sort of subtle awareness or crisis?

As preteens, we tend to become efficient rhetoricians; utilizing the tactic in a manipulative way; to mentally exhaust our parents and teachers; to no end. Rarely, is there a soul out there not guilty of displaying this behavior. Unfortunately, I might have—inadvertently—fine-tuned this childish tactic; in an attempt to see three "sides of the coin"; sometimes convincing others, while merely trying to convince myself; somewhat flippantly observing.

***Prozeugma. Keyword: rhetoricians/tactic.

zeug·ma
/ˈzo͞oɡmə/
noun

a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).***