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Old 10-19-2017, 06:44 PM
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Default Re: News Miscellany

Of course synecdoche isn't a legal device. (lol that you thought my example was supposed to be of a plausible court scene) My point is that it doesn't work in the context of ethical judgement. Just as kissing one's partner isn't child molestation, no matter how many poets and authors use "child" as synecdoche for humans of all ages in their literary work, neither is a facsimile of a child's travelling outfit circa 1940 an egregious reference to any holocaust victim, no matter how many times * song- and playwrights have used "Anne Frank" as synecdoche for WWII evacuees.

Just because there are such things as literary tropes, doesn't mean that we must give free passes to all dishonesty, however blatent. And this Anne Frank costume bullshit is blatant.


* And that number of times is, I am pretty sure, so close to zero that you will not find a single example anywhere on any web or web-type product or service.
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