Fw: H-ASIA: International School for Advanced Studies in Cultural Studies "Critique/Crisis", Palermo, Summer school (comment)

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: International School for Advanced Studies in Cultural
Studies "Critique/Crisis", Palermo, Summer school (comment)

> H-ASIA
> May 13, 2011
>
> Comment on posting for "Critique/Crisis" summer school
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> Ed. note: My editorial note on gettng to finally use "hendiadys" in an
> H-ASIA post (May 13), prompted several members to respond privately on
> the wonder of it all as we push outward our lexical horizons. Here is
> but one example. FFC
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> From: Ian Welch <ian.welch@anu.edu.au>
>
> Most of us engaged in copulative conjunctions when younger, as opportunity
> allowed, but I never knew I was engaging in hendiadys. Apparently people
> have been hendiadysing for a very long time indeed.
>
> Which is just as well, or we might not be here to critique the crisis of
> modernity in Europe. Fortunately, as you hint, there has been a lot more
> hendiadysingness in Asia than elsewhere and, I must add, not only in
> summer. What a corker word.
>
>
> Ian Welch, Canberra
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