Fabulous!
This I must credit to Grammar Puss for bringing to my attention:
zeug·ma n.
1. A construction in which a single word, especially a verb or an adjective, is applied to two or more nouns when its sense is appropriate to only one of them or to both in different ways, as in He took my advice and my wallet.
2. Syllepsis.
This is what I love about language: there's always something new to discover.
Oh, Grammar Puss, I feel like a neophyte! Back to the style manuals I go.
zeug·ma n.
2. Syllepsis.
This is what I love about language: there's always something new to discover.
Oh, Grammar Puss, I feel like a neophyte! Back to the style manuals I go.


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