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   candycanearter07 to snipeco.2@gmail.com   
   Re: ( Antimetabole, Chiasmus ) ---- Corr   
   05 Apr 24 12:50:02   
   
   XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.puzzles   
   From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Sn!pe  wrote at 12:36 this Friday (GMT):   
   > [Followup-To: declined]   
   >   
   > Ammammata  wrote:   
   >   
   >> HenHanna formulated on Friday :   
   >> > Here's why: -- Antimetabole involves the repetition   
   >> >                    of the same words in a reversed  order   
   >> >   
   >>   
   >> I read this somewhere, maybe related to someone brain:   
   >>   
   >> On the left there's nothing right, on the right there's nothing left.   
   >>   
   >   
   > In the case of motoring here in the UK:   
   > The right side is the wrong side; the left side is the right side.   
   >   
   > Furthermore:   
   > Two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do.   
      
      
   So an odd number of wrongs is correct?   
   What about 0 wrongs, then?   
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