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minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoI was using “gerrymandered” as a synecdoche for general election tampering and ratfucking, not in the literal sense of drawing districts. Sorry if I wasn’t being clear enough 🙂
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months ago synecdoche Today I learned a new word. Thanks.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoIt means to use one in place of the whole (or the other way around). Like how sailors are called hands, cattle are heads, and most Republicans are dicks.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoI love that channel! Who would have thought that Taylor Swift is pronounced “Todd Swanson”? 😂
I was using “gerrymandered” as a synecdoche for general election tampering and ratfucking, not in the literal sense of drawing districts.
Sorry if I wasn’t being clear enough 🙂
Today I learned a new word. Thanks.
You’re very welcome 🙂
Sign a kyne a dodie chodie?
It means to use one in place of the whole (or the other way around). Like how sailors are called hands, cattle are heads, and most Republicans are dicks.
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I love that channel! Who would have thought that Taylor Swift is pronounced “Todd Swanson”? 😂