I'm forever learning new things, especially about writing. Lately, I've seen a bunch of these paraprosdokians going around the Internet. Maybe you've seen them ... maybe not. I'm taking a chance that you haven't.
"What the heck's a paraprosdokian," you ask?
It's a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.
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These are a few of my favorites.
1. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
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2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it’s still on my list.
3. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
4. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
5. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
6. Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says, “In case of emergency, notify___,” I put “DOCTOR.”
7. I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
8. I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not so sure.
9. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
10. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
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