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Booradley Posted 19 years ago
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help with the name of a term for this definition??
0 hello 05 0 00 if someone can help me that would be fantastic. 02 br
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00 this is hard to explain, but i'll give it a try. i am wondering what is the term for when you take a word and can break it up into a sentence that makes sense, such as a sentence/phrase within a word. like take the word "anorexia" and out of that you could make the phrase, ana wrecks ya life, like an anorexia life. (phrase from a song, that's the best example i can think of!) but i'm not looking for having a word and making a word. like say the word slaughter and in it would be the word laughter. i want to get a sentence or phrase out of the word. and i need to know what you call this! hopefully this makes sense! and hopefully someone can help please! thanks in advance 05 1 010id 111id 1
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00 this is hard to explain, but i'll give it a try. i am wondering what is the term for when you take a word and can break it up into a sentence that makes sense, such as a sentence/phrase within a word. like take the word "anorexia" and out of that you could make the phrase, ana wrecks ya life, like an anorexia life. (phrase from a song, that's the best example i can think of!) but i'm not looking for having a word and making a word. like say the word slaughter and in it would be the word laughter. i want to get a sentence or phrase out of the word. and i need to know what you call this! hopefully this makes sense! and hopefully someone can help please! thanks in advance 05 1 010id 111id 1
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0 Maybe you're thinking of anagrams, where you rearrange the letters to make a different word or phrase. " 0-
- 0 Maybe you're thinking of anagrams, where you rearrange the letters to make a different word or phrase.
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0 Maybe you're thinking of anagrams, where you rearrange the letters to make a different word or phrase. For eample, an anagram of "George Bush" is "He bugs Gore." 0-
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0 no that's not what i'm thinking of, but thanks anyway! 02 br
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00 anyone else know? i really need to know please! thank you 05 0 010id 1
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00 anyone else know? i really need to know please! thank you 05 0 010id 1
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0 Isn't that considered to be a pun? That's the same sort of pun (wordplay) used in those very punny jokes known as 'knock knock' jokes. 05 0 010id 1
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0 Hi, 02 br
00 it seems it's a kind of compound pun (you can read some stuff about that here: 01 a 05 0 00 02 a 00 ). I don't know if there is a more specific word, a word for exactly that kind of pun you want to know about, but I think there's nothing more specific than compound pun. 02 br
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00 it seems it's a kind of compound pun (you can read some stuff about that here: 01 a 05 0 00 02 a 00 ). I don't know if there is a more specific word, a word for exactly that kind of pun you want to know about, but I think there's nothing more specific than compound pun. 02 br
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00 By the way, I
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