chit chat chit chat

[kedaman]

What's the "Chit" part for this forum?
Euroword gives me these clues:
kirjelippu=note
tenava =kid
tunnuste =accept
I would kick that euroword programmers ass.

[Sam Finch]

"Chit Chat" just means chat about anything, ie topics not connected with programming.

I think chit was added to chat to make a simile-type
sentence.

[Sam Finch]

I thought similes clasicly inclused the words "as a" or "like a"

[V(ery) Basic]

A simile is a comparison:

As blind as a bat

An alliteration are words that start with the same letter:

Batman beats bastards by bonking

You get the point.

Or maybe you don't. Anyway I hope I've cleared that up.

Bye!

[Sam Finch]

Does anyone else have definitions of English gramatical constructions, I for one would like to hear a good definition of an oxymoron or a rhetorical question, perhaps expand on personification and metaphor. I think I speak for us all when I say I proincipaly use this site to expand my vocabluary and sweeten my turn of phrase.

what I meant was alliteration. I always get the two mixed up.

[Zaphod64831]

Actually, an alliteration is the repition of consonant sounds, usually found in tongue twisters and the like.

Example:

Susy Sells Seashells by the Seashore

But they do not necessarily have to START with the same letter in order for an alliteration to occur.

An oxymoron is the comparison of two completely opposite words.

Examples:
Army Intelligence
Microsoft Works


Rhetorical is eloquent speaking to the point of getting across a simple point with hard to understand and complicated speech.

Personification is adding human characteristics to a non-human object or animal.

I forget what a metaphor is defined as, though.

[V(ery) Basic]

And a rhetorical question is a question that is not supposed
to be answered:

Would you want to be killed?

A metaphor is like:

The person got to the point of his speech

There obviously wasn't a real point to the speech
but that is how it is said.

Class dismissed.

[Jamagei]

*almighty bump*

Sorry, had to do it. The oldest thread was locked, and the other one was crap.

Check the dates of the other posts

Goddamnit I'm bored.

[Bonker Gudd]

People will accuse you of being Stefan Raab

The place where the sun don't shine.

Surely you've got some sun Today, it's glorious in Bristol.

[InvisibleDuncan]

Don't get me started...

[Jamagei]

LOL, I am not Stephan Raab, I have enough problems with leading a single personality without trying to be someone else

There is a bit of sun outside, but I have all my blinds closed, or at least the ones by my desk, cos if the sun does shine then it is either straight into my eyes or it is reflected off the building opposite.

[DerFarm]

I note a question as to the etymological basis of the word "chit-
chat". It is a real word, but I believe it to be an Americanism.
Specifically, from the central mid-west (Iowa, Missouri, Illinois,
Kansas....)

It means to speak of things that are not usually associated with
seriousness, and to speak of these things in a non-serious
manner.

If you can find a cartoon where 2 people are talking over the
backfence, this would probably qualify as "chit-chat".

[chrisjk]

dude, this is oooooooooooooold

[parksie]

Older than my virtual persona

[parksie]

Hmm...it's not, but it's older than when I first started regularly posting