Thursday, August 27, 2020

The Uncertain Dictionary VI

Revision: maybe "re" as in "repeat" and maybe meaning "repeat," plus maybe "vision" as in "vision" and maybe meaning "vision," too, so the entire word "revision" maybe means to repeat the same vision a second time.

2 Comments:

At 1:39 AM, Blogger Kevin Kim said...

Perhaps the British sense of "revision" (what we Yanks would call a "review") also means "to repeat the same vision a second time."

[somewhere on the road to Damascus]
JESUS: Saul! Saul! Why persecutest thou me?
SAUL: Who is that? —Whoa, Momma! Bright light!
JESUS: Saul! Saul! Why persecutest thou me? (first repetition of vision)
SAUL: Jesus Christ—who is that? And how do I know this isn't a symptom of temporal-lobe epilepsy that will lead to hypergraphia, which will express itself in my future compulsion to write long letters about religion to numerous churches?
JESUS: Saul! Saul! Why persecutest thou me? (revision)
JESUS: Saul! Saul! Why persecutest thou me? (threevision)

 
At 6:12 AM, Blogger Horace Jeffery Hodges said...

That may be, maybe.

Jeffery Hodges

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