In a message dated 11/12/2002 11:20:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> in English, juxtaposition has the implied connotation that > the two objects > placed together would not normally appear together. > > Herb.... This has always been my understanding too. Well, maybe not that one would not see them normally together, but that there would be some sort of contrast between the two (or more). Although the Webster dictionary definition is as people have said (I looked in mine too), I prefer the one I have found in the American Heritage Dictionary... "To place side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast." Maybe that's interpretation, but that's always been my understanding of the common usage of the word. At least in most of the books I have read. Doe :-) aka Marnie
