New Word Learned of the day

(Courtesy Neil Gaiman’s blog)

“Zeugma”

Zeugma is a word for when you make a verb do several functions at the same time (eg. “I left in a foul mood and a black taxi”).

Ooh, I like that. Both a word I didn’t know and a technique I’ve been failing to employ. As in “Neil Gaiman has created a posting topic and a monster.” Or something to that effect.

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