Catachresis

Last updated Aug 15, 2023

• Source: Tina He; Sources/Fakepixels - Newsletter
• Keywords: Cards/permanent notes
  • #words
• Relevant Notes:
  • Cards/The limits of our language are the limits of our world

• Definition: is a statement is so astonishingly wrong that it feels right.
• originally defined by rhetorician Quintilian as ==a transfer of terms from one place to another when no proper word exists.==
• E.G. how most artists use the word ==love==
  • Leonard Cohen’s “Dance Me to the End of Love”