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From: jlister@slhisc.uucp (John Lister)
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Subject: Re: More routing question information
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Date: 9 Jan 91 21:57:34 GMT
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In article <30703908@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>In article <37629@cup.portal.com> thinman@cup.portal.com (Lance C Norskog) writes:
>>Mr. Grandi used an oddity of the English language called a 'synecdoche'.
>
>Even if he had, synecdoche has no proper place in a technical discussion
>about which networks should interconnect.  The part cannot be casually
>substituted for the whole, or vice versa, when the very meat of the
>argument concerns inappropriate routing through parts and wholes.

[...discussion on internet use omitted...]
>>Synecdoche is your new word for the day.  Pronounce the 'ch' 'sh'.
>
>Did you know that the word 'gullible' is not in the dictionary?
>
>(Synecdoche is, of course, pronounced sin-EK-duh-kee.  Pedantry is its
>own reward :-) )

At the risk of turning this into lang.english.grammar, I would note that
while we're talking about figures of speech, perhaps "litotes" might be
appropriate in this case.  The word is derived from the Greek meaning
"plain" and its modern Greek derivative means "frugal". 

BTW: I thought they hanged pedants (Pun :-)

John Lister.