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	Perverb - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A perverb (contraction of "perverse proverb") is a sentence that starts out like a well-known proverb or other expression, but ends in such an unexpected way that the listener is forced to back up and re-parse several words in order to get its sense.
		To be effective, a written perverb must have correct syntax, spelling, and punctuation, as in the "time flies" example above.
		The term perverb is also used in the weaker sense of any proverb that was modified to have an unexpected, dumb, amusing, or nonsensical ending, or the ending of another proverb — even if the changed version is no harder to parse than the original:
	open-encyclopedia.com /Perverb (191 words)

	Perverb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		You can take a horse to water it down, but be sure to return it.
		You can't teach an old dog would be better for your students.
		The term perverb is also used in the weaker sense of any proverb that was modified to have an unexpected, dumb, amusing, or nonsensical ending, or the ending of another proverb — even if the changed version is no harder to parse than the original:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perverb (224 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		A '''perverb''' (contraction of "perverse proverb") is a Sentence (linguistics) sentence that starts out like a well-known proverb or other expression, but ends in such an unexpected way that the listener is forced to back up and grammar re-parse several words in order to get its sense.
		The term '''perverb''' is also used in the weaker sense of any proverb that was modified to have an unexpected, dumb, amusing, or nonsensical ending, or the ending of another proverb — even if the changed version is no harder to parse than the original: *A rolling stone gathers momentum.
		User:Jorge Stolfi Jorge Stolfi 05:24, 6 May 2004 (UTC) When I first found this article, I thought that it might be too obscure to be "encyclopedic", especially with only 169 Google hits, but one of them was for the OED website [http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/oed/oedappeal/1999appeal/], so I guess it's safe from a VfD.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Perverb.html (337 words)

	Selected Declarations of Dependence - Harry Mathews
		The rest of the book consists largely of so-called "perverbs" and "paraphrases." In perverbs proverbs are taken and perverted -- two disparate ones mixed and matched.
		Paraphrases take the perverbs a step further, paraphrasing the perverbs in more explicit language.
		It is a somewhat dizzying unrolling of many variations on these approaches that follow, but Mathews varies between the perverbs and paraphrases, and intersperses brief episodes employing these devices (the most successful of which is An Interview with Chairman Mao Tsetung), keeping the reader entertained.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/mathewsh/selectdd.htm (538 words)

	ABC NewsRadio: wordwatch, Perverse proverbs
		As part of that approach to literature Harry Matthews has invented the perverse proverb (or perverb for short).
		To write a perverb you take the start of one proverb and stick it onto the end of another, making up a new and usually completely meaningless saying.
		The ABC NewsRadio website was launched in 1996 intending to deliver a complementary service which would add value for listeners.
	www.abc.net.au /newsradio/txt/s1380032.htm (199 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For 5,920 words in the result after combining COMLEX and EVCA, 5,676words also appear in WordNet and each word has 2.5 senses on average.
		After the mergingoperation, the average number of subcategorizations is refined from 5.2 per verb in COM-LEX/EVCA to 3.1 per sense, and the average number of alternations is refined from 1.0 perverb to 0.2 per sense.
		Figure 3 shows the result for the verb appear after the merging operation.
	nlp.fi.muni.cz /projekty/wnportal/ps/txt/349704.txt (3238 words)

	English Perverbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Once more we take inspiration from the glorious Oulipo, and derive, in a synergistic way, new meanings from ancient, traditional wisdom with this list of perverbs.
		It is hoped that these invaluable sayings will form the core of the New Adage movement, and spread themselves memetically across the noxosphere of our planet.
		You can't make an omelette out of a sow's ear.
	www.nous.org.uk /perverb.html (147 words)

	The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry - Collection Record (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		PARAGRAM: A printer's error consisting of the substitution of one letter for another.
		As Marcel Benabou uses the word in his "Table of Elementary Linguistic and Literary Operations," it bears only a very distant relation to the Saussurian notion of "paragram" PERVERB: A perverb juxtaposes the first part of one proverb to the second part of another.
		POEMS FOR MOEBIUS STRIP: A process elaborated by Luc Etienne, involving the disposition of a text on a Moebius strip.
	www.rediscov.com /sacknerarchives/ShowItem.aspx?320200555357~33868 (1621 words)

	OuLiPo - documents / «A Catalogue of Procedures / Un répertoire de procédés» (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Perverbial poem / poème à perverbe : Poems, in which every line is a perverb, can be
		/ On contruit des poèmes dont tous les vers sont des perverbes, en reprenant au même point dans chaque strophe la 1er ou la 2ème moitié des vers, qui feront fonctions de rimes, soit au début soit à la fin des vers.
		By providing it with a narrative interpretation, a perverb can become a source of
	www.oulipo.net /oulipiens/document19353.html (9006 words)

	NADINE: oudapo report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Arbitrarily using one discipline to provide punctuation for another one, we can imagine a multilayered punctuation or metapunctuation, f.e.
		: ‘if music is a punctuation for dance, dance is to space what music is to dance’ (this can also be considered as a productive Perverb, (pg 206 pg65).
		This constraint intends to oblige to sample an improvisation to create material manipulable in its matching with other disciplines, but allows to keep informal in the creation of the material and the interpretation of the punctuation process.
	www.nadine.be:3455 /10/314 (4976 words)

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