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I'm disappointed that tricolon has fallen out of popular use in favour of simple pairs, eg "strong and stable"; the former requires three pairwise agreements among its constituents, the latter but one.

(the B'rer Rabbit stories also have a triple pattern: instead of just contrasting here to there, Uncle Remus is always talking about this over here, that over there, and those over yonder)

  I am a rhetorician
  You are a copywriter
  They display rhyming play
(might GPT use bring back tricolon even among lazy speechwriters?)


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