On 3/3/12 10:37 PM, Ras Far wrote:
So we can have ... chiastic freesects? This sounds like too much fun!
I find chiasmus is a term from linguistics?
I'm not sure it's used much in linguistics per se, but it's common
terminology from classics, rhetoric, and poetry. Literally "chiastic"
just means X shaped or cross-aligned (as opposed to parallel-aligned).
It's one of those nice geometric oppositions like cis-/trans-,
iso-/anti-, co-/contra-, ipsi-/contra-,...
--
Live well,
~wren
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