Don't Forget The History!
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http://stumblng.tumblr.com/post/55125654/while-those-who-forget-a-quotation-in-this
… while those who forget a quotation (in this case, the programmers of the Nautilus file manager) are doomed to misquote it
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Big deal. The quote is almost universally given in the form the Nautilus message uses, and they mean the same freaking thing. It'd be a pretty weak allusion if nobody got it.
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Seriously, this was three weeks ago. Do you not read the front page?
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The word of the day is "paraphrasis".
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@Adriano said:
The word of the day is "paraphrasis".
Thats what people commonly think, but the word of the day is actually synonymous.
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@ComputerForumUser said:
@Adriano said:
The word of the day is "paraphrasis".
Thats what people commonly think, but the word of the day is actually synonymous.
No, I'm pretty sure it's not. Adapting a phrase, while keeping the general meaning, to a different situation is a paraphrasis. Two words that mean the same thing are synonymous. Care to explain?
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I mean the word of the day is synonymous with "paraphrasis".
