5 Mar
2012
5 Mar
'12
12:08 a.m.
On 3/3/12 10:37 PM, Ras Far wrote:
So we can have ... chiastic freesects? This sounds like too much fun!
I find chiasmus is a term from linguistics?
I'm not sure it's used much in linguistics per se, but it's common terminology from classics, rhetoric, and poetry. Literally "chiastic" just means X shaped or cross-aligned (as opposed to parallel-aligned). It's one of those nice geometric oppositions like cis-/trans-, iso-/anti-, co-/contra-, ipsi-/contra-,... -- Live well, ~wren