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Polysyllabification

3/15/2022

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“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
      The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!”
You can recognize the Jaberwock by his preference for words of many syllables.  He  feels right at home calling a war a “special military operation,” or using “truthful hyperbole” for a simple lie.
So, when you encounter the Jabberwock, one two, one two, let your worpal blade go through and through. 
That’s what Socrates would do, call it “the rectification of language,” or  what you will,
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PS  Here’s a refresher link to Lewis Carroll’s  Jaberwocky poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky
 
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