25 Jun 2009 1:24
Zeugma is to Zeugmatic as Hysteron Proteron is to ?
Posted by Steve under NonsenseComment on this post
I wanted an adjectival form of hysteron proteron today, and I decided not to write hysteroproteronic, if you know what I mean (or ass-backwards). I guess if there were one, there’d only be a single word (like zeugma, though of course it wouldn’t be zeugma) for hysteron proteron, and the idea of printing proteron hysteron on a T-shirt wouldn’t even exist. Which got me thinking. How many other funny things don’t exist for reasons like this?
On a happier note, I’m not a stand-up comic and I have an appropriate blog category for this post.