World Wide Words: Contextomy

unknown

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:09:38 GM

Yet another term is . contextomy. , one used principally by academics in reference to literary misquotation. The ending -tomy means cutting up and has here been neatly reversed into context. It was created by the historian Milton Mayer in ...

ARTLURKER Painting beyond Photorealism / Contextomy Hyper ...

admin

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:34:08 GM

This . contextomy. , or taking out of context, shifts the viewer beyond realism to the hyper-real intersection of Romantic sunsets and Miami junkyards. Buwalda's post industrial painting shows the fascination with retrofitting his work. ...

Out of Context

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ue, 09 Feb 2010 20:57:00 GM

Contextomy. as entertainment! You could just hear the hamster flopping around in his head. Newer Post Older Post Home. Blog Archive. 2010 (24). February (4). January (20). 2009 (190). December (13). November (6). October (10) ...

a "gigantic" contextomy

unknown

Sat, 23 May 2009 14:58:36 GM

on the basis of the blurb for the new movie "gigantic", the ad writer can make a fine and original . contextomy. . this isn't quite it, but "has moments so good"--all you wish for is a second draft. the blurb sounds a bit less than ...

contextomy on colombia

ChamberPost

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:25:04 GM

by brad peck in a letter to the times record in maine an opponent of the colombia trade agreement thinks he has a point: attention should be paid to a statement by tom donahue, president of the us chamber of commerce, pertaining to the ...

Contextomy IV

rollakid

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:46:06 GM

[22:38:48] . why satriakid's 1 so short? [22:38:57] . no one know [22:39:06] . apparently, she still don't know [22:39:11] . my lips are sealed [22:39:30] . bunnie, thnx ...

how to be a bad arguer: contextomy

Dr. Zoltan!

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:37:23 GM

contextomy. is a logical fallacy / term that refers to the act of quoting out of context. how to do it: simply remove a statement or phrase (or even a sentence fragment) from the rest of the entire context surrounding it, thus changing ...

title : quotations & contextomy label : ...8 days clean ...

Nationstaterecordings

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:08:00 GM

quotations and . contextomy. : rounding out at 7 mins. join us in our void where we briefly touch topics as misunderstandin​g, false hope, want, need, and the endless search for self, and serenity, in a time when we all can easily lose sight ...

Proof texting and science

MysticWriter

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:44:00 GM

Since the context of a typical passage is longer than a couple of verses and PT insists on small fragments, . contextomy. is unavoidable. At best, loss of context could eliminate the argument leading to the cited conclusion. ...

Patterico's Pontifications Glenn Greenwald Smears Allahpundit ...

Patterico

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:13:44 GM

contextomy. . Comment by Andre G. 11/7/2009 @ 2:34 pm. He's not smearing you. He's selectively editing you to advance Teh Narrative. It's a simple matter of the ends justify the means. As long as he can make you and Allahpundit look ...

text, without context, is pretext.

capecog

hu, 14 Dec 2006 06:02:09 GM

comparing this practice to surgery, the term . contextomy. is described by the editor of the infamous nazi broadsheet to arouse anti-semitic sentiments among the weekly's working class christian readership. ...

word of the day - october 25, 2006

unknown

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:10:39 GM

contextomy. mcglone, ms (2005b). . contextomy. : the art of quoting out of context. media, culture, & society, 27, 511-522i like this word so much that i'm going to create a . contextomy. generator...

context, context, contest

G

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:19:00 GM

this is called . contextomy. . look it up. last night, lady sarah ended the debate with a quote was from ronald reagan, warning that without vigilance, "you and i are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children's ...

Underpants Cancers! You should probably be aware of these things.

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:00:00 GM

Underpants Cancers! You should probably be aware of these things.

I see my ovaries are showing again. I really need to be careful ...

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Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:04:00 GM

I see my ovaries are showing again. I really need to be careful about that.

I need to change my pants after that one.

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Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:50:00 GM

I need to change my pants after that one.

fact checking the whopper

unknown

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:37:39 GM

however, i will point out that the sixth so-called lie is actually the cheney "reconstituted nuclear weapons" . contextomy. , which i've debunked ad nauseum over the last couple of years. like a monster in a bad horror movie, ...

what's new?

unknown

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:58:53 GM

since with the end of election we're no longer obsessed with polls, i've added a new fallacy watch feature: familiar . contextomies. . i expect to be adding to this page in the future, so if you know of a candidate . contextomy. , ...

a note on straw men

Joe Bodell

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:34:37 GM

quote an opponent's words "out of context" -- ie, choose quotations that are not representative of the opponent's actual intentions (see . contextomy. ) [emphasis added]; present someone who defends a position poorly as the defender, ...

CONSPIRACY! CONSPIRACY! YOU ARE ALL TOOLS! : Edward Champion's ...

DrMabuse

ue, 14 Nov 2006 20:36:28 GM

This is a preposterous . contextomy. , seeing as how any sane person is aware that it is impossible for any journalist, whether print or online, who receives fifteen to twenty books a week to review each and every one of them. ...