Talk:Merism

merge
I don't know how to do the template thing, but this should be merged with merismus, which appears to be the same thing. Widsith 15:34, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

I would advise to keep the briefer explanation of merism at this alphabetical location -- someone seeking "merism" would probably not know to look up "merismus." JPickett

I'm unclear on the relationship between http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendiadys and Merism. Are they synonyms, one a subset of the other, or distinct? --Wcoole (talk) 21:14, 22 June 2011 (UTC)


 * They are very much distinct. A hendiadys is the breaking up of a composite expression into its two parts. Nikolaj1905 (talk) 09:16, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Even though neither of these authors uses the "pretext" language in this article, the "citation needed" in the last paragraph could be met by:

Peter Tiersma, Legal Language (University of Chicago Press, 1999). summarized at http://www.languageandlaw.org/LEGALLANG.HTM

which was cited with approval in Deborah Cao, Translating Law (Multilingual Matters, Ltd, 2007) at page 89

http://books.google.com/books?id=dA8Xns6_LUgC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=grant+bargain+convey+french+english+saxon&source=bl&ots=9xTh3OCa0Z&sig=OaF8c_GUZqUQpe2jO1gOp1FREvs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-UiET-qiJ8eW2gX82fD3CA&ved=0CFEQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=grant%20bargain%20convey%20french%20english%20saxon&f=false

Doug  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.54.145.254 (talk) 15:19, 10 April 2012 (UTC)