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Reminds me of antimetabole(/chiasmus): http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/antimetabole.htm http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/antimetabole.htm That's the phenomeno
by chillingeffect 11y ago
Reminds me of antimetabole(/chiasmus): http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/antimetabole.htm http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/antimetabole.htm
That's the phenomenon where people swap around phrases to make them sound more "complete".
- bitwize 11y agoIt's amazing how stealthily common that is. "Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you." --Bad Street Brawler "What a country! In LA everybody is looking for party; in Soviet Russia, party comes looking for you!" --Yakov Smirnoff, vaguely echoing an even more famous Soviet personality: "You may not be interested in the dialectic, but the dialectic is interested in you." --Trotsky