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   From: rjh@cpax.org.uk   
      
   On 17/05/16 09:35, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > Save the Allegory!   
      
      
      
   Save the "use-mention" distinction!   
      
   > An entire literary tradition is being forgotten because writers use   
   > the term allegory to mean, like, whatever they want.   
      
   Writers do not use the term allegory, whatever a term allegory might be.   
   They do, however, sometimes use (and indeed abuse) the term 'allegory'.   
   The author of the article is /mentioning/ the word 'allegory', not using   
   it, and so it is necessary to use extra punctuation to mark off the   
   mentioned word.   
      
      
      
   > Just bear with me for a moment   
   > while I get medieval   
      
   The word is 'mediæval'. :-)   
      
   > on those who abuse the word allegory.   
      
   Those who abuse the word 'allegory' are as mustard seeds compared to the   
   mountains who confuse using words with mentioning them.   
      
      
      
   --   
   Richard Heathfield   
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