Comments on: Friday (Woo) http://www.fleen.com/archives/2010/01/22/friday-woo/ the webcomics blog about webcomics Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:24:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: nic http://www.fleen.com/archives/2010/01/22/friday-woo/comment-page-1/#comment-267348 nic Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:47:24 +0000 http://www.fleen.com/?p=6085#comment-267348 'Knock it off' is a command to stop. 'Knock it the hell off' is an example of phraseal in-fixing. In-fixing is a rhetorical technique wherein a word, usually an expletive, is inserted into the midst of another word or phrase, for emphasis or comedic purposes. So we could rewrite Gary's sentence as 'perhaps this will onvince the authors of webcomics-scrapers that they should stop', but his version has more punch. ‘Knock it off’ is a command to stop. ‘Knock it the hell off’ is an example of phraseal in-fixing. In-fixing is a rhetorical technique wherein a word, usually an expletive, is inserted into the midst of another word or phrase, for emphasis or comedic purposes. So we could rewrite Gary’s sentence as ‘perhaps this will onvince the authors of webcomics-scrapers that they should stop’, but his version has more punch.

]]> By: Daniel Lieske http://www.fleen.com/archives/2010/01/22/friday-woo/comment-page-1/#comment-267265 Daniel Lieske Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:16:07 +0000 http://www.fleen.com/?p=6085#comment-267265 Sorry, I'm not a native speaker and I don't understand the following part of your posting: "perhaps this will convince the authors of webcomics-scrapers that they should knock it the hell off." I'm stupid, I know, but could you perhaps elaborate on this and put in into some other words? Sorry, I’m not a native speaker and I don’t understand the following part of your posting:

“perhaps this will convince the authors of webcomics-scrapers that they should knock it the hell off.”

I’m stupid, I know, but could you perhaps elaborate on this and put in into some other words?

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