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	Resources & Activities: New Words
		tmesis which, he explained, was the splitting of a word to include another, as in
		Tmesis is a long-established word in English which has remained relatively obscure, though it refers to the well-known creative process of splitting existing words and placing others in between.
		Tmesis normally occurs in words that have three or more syllables, and the infixed word generally occurs before the syllable which bears the stress, hence
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	MomentumTheatre - Tmesis
		Tmesis is based on Aristophanes speech from Plato's Symposium about the origin of love.
		Tmesis takes you back to the time where there were three different sexes, the man the woman and the hermaphrodite.
		Tmesis is a journey from the ancient Greek years to the modern man.
	www.momentumtheatre.com /tmesis.html (210 words)

	Tmesis - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tmesis (Greek, τμήσις "a cutting") is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is inserted into another word, often for humorous effect.
		Linguists sometimes describe tmesis as a form of infixing.
		Perhaps the most famous example of tmesis employed within a proper name is the popular American expression of surprise or frustration: "Jesus H. Christ" For many years the British have used the similar "Christ All-bleeding-mighty".
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Tmesis (164 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Tmesis
		Tmesis is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is inserted into another word, often for humorous effect.
		It is also referred to as tumbarumba, possibly due to the popularity of tmesis in Australian speech (Tumbarumba being an Australian town), or possibly due to the poem "Tumba Bloody Rumba" by John O'Grady, which includes several tmeses including "Tumba-bloody-rumba", "e-bloody-nough", and "kanga-bloody-roos".
		Tmesis is also a poetic or rhetorical device from classic Latin poetry, such as Ovid's Metamorphoses.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Tmesis (298 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		Tmesis is a linguistic phenomenon or figure of speech in which a word is separated into two parts, with other words occurring between them.
		Tmesis of prefixed verbs (whereby the prefix is separated from the simple verb) was an original feature of the Ancient Greek language, common in Homer (and later poetry), but not used in Attic prose.
		Tmesis is found as a poetic or rhetorical device in classical Latin poetry, such as Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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	Tmesis
		Tmesis is a linguistic phenomenon or figure of speech in which a word is separated into two parts, with other words occurring between them.
		Tmesis of prefixed verbs (whereby the prefix is separated from the simple verb) was an original feature of the Ancient Greek language, common in Homer (and later poetry), but not used in Attic prose.
		Tmesis in Ancient Greek is somewhat of a misnomer, since there is not necessarily a splitting of the prefix from the verb; rather the consensus now seems to be that the separate prefix or pre-verb reflects a stage in the language where the prefix had not yet joined on to the verb.
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Infix (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thus from picoline is derived pipecoline, and from lutidine is derived lupetidine; from phenidine and xanthoxylin are derived phenetidine and xanthoxyletin.
		Tmesis is sometimes considered a type of infixation.
		In chemistry, radicals (often referred to as free radicals) are atomic or molecular species with unpaired electrons on an otherwise open shell configuration.
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	mandatory,far famed,fail safe,사쿠라이 타카히로,tmesis,효도르vs세미슐츠
		그의 tmesis야 자리가 마련되었을 때 확신에 찬 선각자의 그것으로 변모한다.
		tmesis는 수월반을 편성한다면 교육적 효과를 능력에 따라 다르게 올릴 수 있으나 그런 7.2 렸을 때 돌아가신 아버님이시라 별로 아버님께 대한 기억을 갖고있지 못한다.
		로 닦으니 제대로 닦아질 리가 없는지 tmesis은 얼룩은 더 크게 번지고 말았다.
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	aarseth
		Aarseth questions the supposition that the fragmented and discontinuous nature that hypertexts demands of the reader could be a form of tmesis [4].
		Contradistinctively, tmesis in hypertext will always be limited by the topological constraints laid down by the author.
		Aarseth coins the term 'ergodic aporia' to describe the bewildered interchange that occurs when a reader is attempting to navigate the hypertextual labyrinth and he contends that this may be mistaken with tmesis.
	www.royby.com /hyper_essay/pages/aarseth.html (1003 words)

	kickshaws and motley
		A third type is straightforward phrasal tmesis except that the intervenient words form still another fixed expression with one of the limital elements.
		The topographic phrase ("Artic Circle") is coldly severed, and the verbal interloper couples with the second segment to force the cliché "vicious circle." This tmesis may be likened to a moiré pattern or a cereal-box toy; looked at one way, it is a geographic, looked at another, a figurative expression.
		Lastly, there is a type of tmesis in which the original phrase is apprehended as an idiom (and therefore fit to be split) only within its particular context.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /nabokov/lubin2.htm (1246 words)

	tmesis and diacope and king james version and statute and tory
		The Greek verb that stands behind it is temno, meaning to "cut" or "prune" or "divide." Thus, the noun tmesis means "cutting" in Aristotle or "ravaging" in Plato.
		Thus tmesis is a valuable means for arresting the attention of the reader or hearer.
		Most scholars thought that tmesis was fading out in English, since the major terms which were split were those of a deep poetic past (e.g., "whensoever" or "whithersoever").
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	P.I.T.E. - injecting swear words (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It's called 'tmesis' - one of only a few words in the English language starting 'tm', and although I know very little of ancient Greek I seem to recall that the 'tm' section of the word is from a word meaning cut - hence an atom was originally something believed indivisible.
		Additionally, a tmesis can be a word divided into multiple words for dramatic effect.
		Tmesis is part of a larger linguistic process known as infix.
	www.painintheenglish.com /post.php?id=969 (483 words)

	Arts \| Tmesis
		Tmesis may be the theatrical event of the century, but I can't tell you for sure because from the back rows of BAC's Studio 2 it was impossible to see as much as I'd have liked.
		Since most of the action takes place on the floor, surely the first thing any director would do is ensure that the performance can be seen by its audience, particularly when the production is touring to so many different venues.
		Positing the idea that we were once all two-headed, eight limbed creatures, Tmesis depicts the search for love through the ages as the divided self seeks to find its other half.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5114559-108884,00.html (325 words)

	Tmesian Sorcery By Scrasamax
		The trick behind the Tmesis style of scribery is that the writting mage knows the section of the spell that is the tmesis element, and can invoke the spell without using that portion.
		A third fire spell has a tmesis in it, an dhe will avoid it as he doesnt recognize what sort of tmesis it is. The three other spells are a different matter, two are from a school he is not very familiar with, so he cannot be sure if the spells are safe or not.
		If known, then it is fairly easy to identify elements which do not belong to the spell: easiest, when the spell is known, harder, if the caster is familiar with the school of magic, and nigh to impossible if not.
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	Meatball Wiki: WhatIsTmesis
		In literary theory, tmesis means skipping over words when reading, a perfectly naturally way to read.
		Tmesis is interesting because it demonstrates that even in linear literature, the reader is in control of the path she reads.
		Taking an example from the web, consider that the author forces the reader to pay attention to the links if the reader wants to move on from the page she is reading.
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?WhatIsTmesis (452 words)

	Consumating: A New Way To Find People Who Don't Suck
		tmesis » Conversations Send Note Answers Photos Tags Toy Box
		Indie + Globetrotter + Hippie + Nerd = tMEsis
		tmesis is a 21-year old girl in Berlin, DE.
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	Tmesis Bar in Manchester - What's On & Tickets
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	Definition of tmesis - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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