All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Catachresis: A Way Too Scary Game When Jeff, noted ghostologist, is called in late one night, he knows that he has a job to do. What he doesn't know is ...

Learn more. Q My teacher wrote on my paper that I need to avoid “catachresis.” What does that mean? – A.G., Portland, Maine A: One thing it means is that your teacher likes fancy words.

Since we've discussed mixed metaphors, it's time to graduate to an advanced version of them - catachresis, another one of those terms only grammarians know. Catachresis is a figure of speech in ...

Although many Americans heard Barack Obama's inauguration speech, they probably weren't listening for plyptotons and catachresis — but Geoff Nunberg was. Nunberg teaches at the University of ...

That pun employs a Catachresis, which describes the use of a wrong but similar-sounding word to create a pun or alternate phrasing. Interestingly, the 2000 Mazda Miata we looked at yesterday was ...

Similarly, linguistic purists shudder at the slightest grammatical laxity. For them, catachresis is cringe-worthy (just Google ‘catachresis’ to understand). And to these purists, Alex ...