On Dec 5, 2007 1:27 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/12/2007, Mike Godwin mnemonic@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by "rhetoric" here
Rhetoric is something said more for effect than for its informational value - humour and irony are forms of rhetoric. (They can still have informational value, but it's generally of secondary importance to the effect of the statement.)
Ah, that explains my confusion -- you were using a nonstandard definition of "rhetoric."
No... I don't think so: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhetoric
I do think in point of fact Mike has the better of you here.
If you mean definition two in wiktionary, that one is the vulgar use of the word.
The standard meaning of rhetoric is outlined in good depth, not at wiktionary, but at the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
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