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minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months agoI was using “gerrymandered” as a synecdoche for general election tampering and ratfucking, not in the literal sense of drawing districts. Sorry if I wasn’t being clear enough 🙂
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoIt means to use one in place of the whole (or the other way around). Like how sailors are called hands, cattle are heads, and most Republicans are dicks.
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago synecdoche Today I learned a new word. Thanks.
I was using “gerrymandered” as a synecdoche for general election tampering and ratfucking, not in the literal sense of drawing districts.
Sorry if I wasn’t being clear enough 🙂
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It means to use one in place of the whole (or the other way around). Like how sailors are called hands, cattle are heads, and most Republicans are dicks.
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Today I learned a new word. Thanks.