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Title: HYPERBATON!
Post by: 420 on September 05, 2007, 01:00:35 AM

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Talon is using a figure of speech - actually, if we're being accurate, it's hyperbaton - changing word order to emphasize meaning. Talon's using one of the most common instances. Its construction is:
An <obvious indicator> does not a <noun> make.

So, "A carving knife does not a butcher make" means "Just having a knife doesn't mean you know how to cut meat properly."

-Throbblefoot

PS - The Wikipedia article might explain the general idea:
Wikipedia on Hyperbaton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaton)

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Sounds like a fun game to me.

A blue suit and red tie does not a politician make.

-420

Title: HYPERBATON!
Post by: Throbblefoot on September 05, 2007, 01:33:39 AM

A thesaurus does not a poet make.

-Throbblefoot

Title: HYPERBATON!
Post by: Mercy on September 05, 2007, 03:10:55 AM

A booger does not a good meal make.

Title: HYPERBATON!
Post by: Soul Sojourner on September 05, 2007, 07:30:01 PM

A coldmaster does not a master of cold make.

Title: HYPERBATON!
Post by: cuchulann on September 05, 2007, 09:13:56 PM

A popular vote does not a president make.

Title: HYPERBATON!
Post by: Throbblefoot on September 05, 2007, 09:46:11 PM

Nice one, Cuchulann!

Anastrophe does not a logical point make.

Title: HYPERBATON!
Post by: Soul Sojourner on September 05, 2007, 10:04:40 PM

Instability does not unstable make.

Title: HYPERBATON!
Post by: Meclar on September 08, 2007, 02:44:33 AM

Understand does not remove confusion make.

Did I do it right?

Title: HYPERBATON!
Post by: 420 on September 08, 2007, 02:46:25 AM

A poop scooper does not a Poop Smith make.

-420

Title: HYPERBATON!
Post by: Throbblefoot on September 08, 2007, 02:06:36 PM

I can't say I'd classify "remove confusion" as a noun. Maybe "does not comprehension make"?

-Throbblefoot

Title: HYPERBATON!
Post by: Soul Sojourner on September 08, 2007, 06:46:18 PM

I think you need to add an ing to understand as well.