It's Greek to Me

Authors

Leonard R. N. Ashley

Abstract

The Greek grammarians and rhetoricians saddled subsequent cultures in the West with awkward and somewhat ugly terms for the discussions of speaking and writing. Take Paradiorthosis, as when we allude to a quotation that does not need to be identified but is given a new twist.

Recommended Citation

Ashley, Leonard R. N. (1996) "It's Greek to Me," Word Ways: Vol. 29 : Iss. 1 , Article 23.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol29/iss1/23