Timeline for the use of parentheses to mean "I won't tell you this again"
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| Jul 24, 2012 at 15:46 | vote | accept | James Propp | ||
| Jul 24, 2012 at 15:46 | comment | added | James Propp | The fit isn't perfect, but it's close enough for me. | |
| Jul 21, 2012 at 8:49 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Isn't one of the standard examples of preterition "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him...", followed by much praising? Or, for a more recent exmplar, Peter Cook's sketch cvillewords.com/2007/11/09/entirely-a-matter-for-you | |
| Jul 20, 2012 at 20:50 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | (This is on the verge of becoming offtopic but) I think that preterition is the artiluge of saying that one is not saying something in order to say it, but the «(bounded)» does not carry that intention. It would be different if the theorem were something like «Don't get me started on the fact that we are assuming that our intervals are bounded, and let us just say that continuous functions on an interval are integrable.» | |
| Jul 20, 2012 at 20:43 | comment | added | Adam Saltz | I think a more typical use is found in this gem from Cicero's Against Catiline (quoting from the 1856 trans. on perseus.tufts.edu): "What? when lately by the death of your former wife you had made your house empty and ready for a new bridal, did you not even add another incredible wickedness to this wickedness? But I pass that over, and willingly allow it to be buried in silence, that so horrible a crime may not be seen to have existed in this city..." Cicero draws attention to the crime making himself appear generous for doing so. | |
| Jul 20, 2012 at 20:18 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | @Mariano: to me that's exactly it, i.e. unless I'm missing something his "(bounded)" is synonymous with "(I won't mention bounded)". | |
| Jul 20, 2012 at 20:06 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | That's similar but not quite it, is it? The Eco's artiluge mentioned at the end of that section, though, would make for a fun paper :) | |
| Jul 20, 2012 at 20:05 | history | edited | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added etymology
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| Jul 20, 2012 at 19:57 | history | answered | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |