Saturday, March 9, 2019

Tabula Rosa Systems Blog 3/9//19 - Hendiadys - A Rhetorical Term You Often Use



                                                     Hendiadys

 
Richard Nordquist is a freelance writer and former professor of English and Rhetoric who wrote college-level Grammar and Composition textbooks. 

Updated June 06, 2017 
 
Hendiadys (pronounced hen-DEE-eh-dis) is a figure of speech in which two words joined by and express an idea that is more commonly expressed by an adjective and a noun. Adjective: hendiadic. Also known as the figure of twins and pseudo coordination.

Critic Frank Kermode described hendiadys as "a way of making a single idea strange by splitting an expression in two" (​Shakespeare's Language, 2000).



William Shakespeare used hendiadys "almost compulsively" in several of his plays (J. Shapiro, 2005). More than 60 instances of the figure appear in Hamlet alone (e.g., "a fashion and a toy in blood," "the perfume and suppliance of a minute").

Pronunciation 
hen-DEE-eh-dis
Alternate Spellings 
endiadis, hendiasys
Etymology
From the Greek, "one by means of two"
Examples and Observations 

"[Hendiadys is the] expression of an idea by two nouns connected by 'and' instead of a noun and its qualifier: 'by length of time and siege' for 'by a long siege.' Puttenham offers an example: 'Not you, coy dame, your lowers and your looks,' for 'your lowering looks.' Peacham, ignoring the derivation of the term, defines it as the substituting, for an adjective, of a substantive with the same meaning: 'a man of great wisdom' for 'a wise man.' This redefinition would make it a kind of anthimeria."
(Richard Lanham, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms. University of California Press, 1991)
  • "Finally, my father said, 'I'll tell you what, Sharla. Just go and visit for a few hours; you don't have to spend the night, all right?'”(Elizabeth Berg, What We Keep. Random House, 1998)
  • "Penny waited until she knew her father had left the house before taking Kelly upstairs to give her a good wash and to try and do something to tidy her hair before taking her out."(Rosie Harris, Love or Duty. Severn House, 2014)
The Hendiadic Formula 

"We frequently join adjectives on the pattern of nice and warm, good and loud, big and fat, sick and tired, long and leggy. Each of these pairs represents a single concept in which the general idea contained in the first adjective is explained or specified or opened up by the second; and, insofar as such expressions may be continually invented, the pattern seems the closest thing to adjectival hendiadys in English. Formulaic phrases such as nice and and good and may be completed by virtually any adjective (or at least any pithy one) in the language. Being formulaic, however, they lack the elements of surprise, or improvisation, and of eccentric coordination that we find in classical hendiadys."
(George T. Wright, "Hendiadys and Hamlet." PMLA, March 1981)

Rhetorical Effect of Hendiadys 

"[H]endiadys has the effect of using language in order to slow down the rhythm of thought and perception, to break things down into more elementary units, and thereby to distort normative habits of thought and put them out of joint. Hendiadys is a kind of rhetorical double take, a disruptive slowing of the action so that, for example, we realize that the hatching of something is not identical with its disclosure (Hamlet 3.1.174), or that 'the expectation and rose of the fair state' (Hamlet 3.1.152), rather than the merely expectant rose, define two distinctive aspects of Hamlet's role as heir apparent."
(Ned Lukacher, Time-Fetishes: The Secret History of Eternal Recurrence. Duke University Press, 1998)
Pseudo-Coordination
"For present-day English, [Randolph] Quirk et al. [A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, 1985] comment on the similarity between expressions like come and see, go to visit, try to do. They remark that 'the semantic relation is alternatively realized by coordinated clauses, especially in rather informal usage.' Quirk et al. (1985:987-88) return to the topic of hendiadys under the heading of 'pseudo-coordination,' noting that I'll try and come tomorrow is 'roughly equivalent' to I'll try to come tomorrow, and that they sat and talked about the good old times is 'similar in meaning' to they sat talking about the good old times. . . .
"[H]endiadic verbal expressions cover a spectrum that extends from 'core' examples like go and, come and, come along and, come up and, stand there and, sit around and, try and to a plethora of occasional types such as take a chance and, plunge in and, wake up and, go to work and, roll up one's sleeves and, and very many others that could be characterized as hendiadic in a broader sense."
(Paul Hopper, "Hendiadys and Auxiliation in English." Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, ed. by Joan L. Bybee and Michael Noonan. John Benjamins, 2002)
The Lighter Side of Hendiadys
Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here?
Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western.


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Friday, March 8, 2019

Tabula RosaSystems Blog Of 3/8/2019 - International Women's Day


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International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8 every year. It is a focal point in the movement for women's rights. After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women's Day on February 28, 1909, in New York, the 1910 International Socialist Woman's Conference suggested a Women's Day be held annually. Wikipedia
Date: Friday, March 8, 2019 
Significance: Civil awareness day; Women and girls day; Anti-sexism day; Anti-Discrimination Day









Updated February 23, 2019

The United Nations instituted International Women's Day, celebrated every year on March 8, to commemorate the contribution of women in the socio-political sphere as well as in global peace and security.​

International Women's Day can be traced back to the women's suffrage movement starting in the 19th century. Over many decades, women achieved tremendous progress in many areas of life. Women's emancipation from​ traditional roles took on new meaning when they traveled into space and fought alongside men in combat.

Insightful Quotes About Womenhood
Mahatma Gandhi
"Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity."
Farrah Fawcett
"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."
"Women are the real architects of society."
Charles Malik
"The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world."
"Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!"
"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size."
Timothy Leary
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
Ville Valo
"Women are always beautiful.."
Loretta Young
"A charming woman doesn’t follow the crowd. She is herself."
Philip Moeller
"Women are seldom silent. Their beauty is forever speaking for them."
"Women are leaders everywhere you look -- from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes."
Melinda Gates
"A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult."
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission."
Robert Elliott Gonzales, "Poems and Paragraphs"
"All the world's a stage, and it's a dead easy guess which sex has all the speaking parts."
Louise Otto
"The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves."
"A free race cannot be born of slave mothers."
Mel Gibson
"I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine."
"I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon."
Joseph Conrad
"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men."
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
Christabel Pankhurst
"Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us."
"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."
"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
David Bower
"Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt."
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In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ has a website with great assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” has just been published and will be followed by a trilogy of books on Netiquette for young people. You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:

 www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki

Anyone who would like to review the book and have it posted on my blog or website, please contact me paul@netiquetteiq.com.

In addition to this blog, I maintain a radio show on BlogtalkRadio  and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and  Yahoo I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ and  PSG of Mercer County, NJ.


Additionally, I am the president of Tabula Rosa Systems, a “best of breed” reseller of products for communications, email, network management software, security products and professional services.  Also, I am the president of Netiquette IQ. We are currently developing an email IQ rating system, Netiquette IQ, which promotes the fundamentals outlined in my book.