March 2011
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sitzfleisch
noun • the ability to endure a boring activity
from German sitzen ‘to sit’ and fleisch ‘flesh’
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diegesis
noun • a narration or recitation.
From Ancient Greek διήγησις (diegesis, “narration”), from διηγέομαι (diegeomai, “(I) narrate”).
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prolepsis
noun • IPA: /pɹoʊˈlɛpsɪs/ • 1) the assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it (rhetoric). 2) the anticipation of an objection to an argument (logic). 3) a construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond (grammar, rhetoric). 4) a so-called “preconception”, ie a pre-theoretical notion which can...
