Originally posted by The PlumberYou do talk rubbish.
I do know what you mean, although "specialist term" is not typical English usage (at least not in any English I'm familiar with), so I wouldn't say "better." However, I don't think you understand what I mean. Just because English has a word for a particular practice or occurrence, doesn't mean that it would have a term for a related or similar practice or occurrence. English isn't logical like that.
Originally posted by The PlumberHm, it seems that you still don't understand. Linguistics is a science, and the terms it uses are created differently from how casual language develops. If alliteration would only refer to consonants, there would have to be a word for the same thing with vowels, simply because that literary technique exists, and you need a term to describe it.
I do know what you mean, although "specialist term" is not typical English usage (at least not in any English I'm familiar with), so I wouldn't say "better." However, I don't think you understand what I mean. Just because English has a word for a particular practice or occurrence, doesn't mean that it would have a term for a related or similar practice or occurrence. English isn't logical like that.
Originally posted by NordlysTry here instead:
According to Wikipedia (and to my surprise), "alliteration is a stylistic device, or literary technique, in which successive words (more strictly, stressed syllables) begin with the same [b]consonant sound or letter". Maybe they are wrong. I misunderstood the assonance bit. If alliteration were only for consonants, it would seem logical that there would also be a word for the same with vowels.[/b]
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Alliteration
