Very abridged debate commentary
Am not going to post at length on the first presidential debate. It’s past my bedtime already. Must catch up on sleep.
However, I have to say that my good mood from watching Kerry mop the floor with Bush was perfectly capped off by watching the commentators on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart fling around words like "litotes" and "anadiplosis." (Anadiplosis! I wrote about anadiplosis in one of my dissertation chapters! My name is Amanda, and I am a classical rhetoric geek.)
OMG! If I didn’t get that Daily Show on Tivo I don’t know what I’m going to do.
Did he really use litotes or just refer to them? Gotta love it.
I didn’t notice any actual litotes use during the debate — the Daily Show was doing a riff on sportscaster-style post-debate commentary. (“But then Bush came back with a litotes and Kerry was pissing blood! …Metaphorically speaking, that is.”) What really made me shriek with delight was the way the commentator included a correct definition of anadiplosis in the midst of the snark.