The Cunctator wrote: Excellent words. They deserve to be in Wiktionary! Ec

|From: The Cunctator <cunctator(a)kband.com> |Sender: wikien-l-admin(a)wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org |Date: 20 Mar 2003 14:56:52 -0500 | |On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 14:08, Poor, Edmund W wrote: |> I'd love to turn this mailing list into a debate forum, and I consider |> it an honor to have attracted the attention of such an awesome |> exponent of personal liberty as the Cunctator. |> |> But Jimbo would probably not like it. |> |> So I guess I'll just get back to work. |> |What an excellent example of paralipsis (or as the Romans would say, |praeteritio). | Public service (meaning, I had to look it up) Paralipsis -- A rhetorical figure in which the speaker emphasizes something by affecting to pass it by without notice, usually by such phrases as "not to mention", "to say nothing of". What's the term for attempting to overpower through use of obscure pedantic words? TomP O88