Wordie: Metonym

9 months ago npydyuan said:

Say it again...

9 months ago uselessness said:

Absolutely nothing.

9 months ago reesetee said:

War? Huh. Good God, y'all. What is it good for?

9 months ago seanahan said:

This looks like the beginning of a war.

9 months ago reesetee said:

To paraphrase Twain, "But wait, you repeated what I said." ;->

9 months ago seanahan said:

Try this page http://www.answers.com/metonymy?cat=health&gwp=13

Essentially, synecdoche is a special case of metonymy, where the replacing word is actually part of what is being placed.

9 months ago reesetee said:

As I understand it, synecdoche is a type of metonymy. There's a fairly good explanation here.

9 months ago npydyuan said:

Can somebody clarify how metonymy is different from synecdoche?

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