Talk:Hendiatris

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Is Sex and Drugs and Rock'n Roll one? Wouter Lievens 21:48, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do we really need the "The form is also used in advertising, a notorious example being Microsoft's One world, one web, one program, which (presumably unintentionally) echoes the Nazi Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Führer! (One people! One empire! One leader!)"? 84.39.90.192 (talk) 22:45, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I found that last amusing, anyhow. My concern is more that the tripartite mottoes seem to be taking over this article (a giant swath above the table of contents) and should perhaps be shifted entirely into a new (or other existing) article. They don't seem to be of the "three words one idea" sentiment the first paragraph conveys to me. --128.208.46.38 (talk) 01:03, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There used to be a tripartite motto article which was merged into this one... AnonMoos (talk) 05:21, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Education, education, education

The form is so well known that it can be played upon, as in the three requisites of Real Estate ("Location, Location, Location"), and similarly with Tony Blair stating his priorities as a political leader to be "education, education and education".

Perhaps related to these examples is "To learn, to learn and to learn [once again]", attributed to Vladimir Lenin. It is widely known in former Soviet republics.

Hendiatris?

According to Google ngram-viewer, the term "hendiatris" is "not found". It simply has never been used either in Britain or in America. What are here reported to be examples of "hendiatris" are normally called "tricolon". I suggest that this article therefore is not needed and it should be deleted. Kanjuzi (talk) 15:45, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Google search has 27100 hits on the word, and many (har to tell HOW many) are in English. Keep.--Nø (talk) 17:26, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is no evidence given here that any academic writer has used the term "hendiatris" to refer to what is usually called "tricolon", such as the Cicero quotation. Kanjuzi (talk) 21:33, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reference 1 and 2 may not qualify as academic -

Kevin WILSON; Jennifer WAUSON (3 August 2010). The AMA Handbook of Business Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Style, Grammar, Punctuation, Usage, Construction and Formatting. AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-8144-1590-0. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
Gregory T. Howard, Dictionary of Rhetorical Terms, p. 115

and I haven't verified that they use the term at all, but I suppose they do. The triple isocolon seems to be more narrowly defined, with each part having the same number of syllables. Triads, conversely, seem to be more broadly defined. Possibly, the present article could be a section in Triad, perhaps with a heading like "Tripartite mottos", or the present article could be renmaned to Tripartite motto (which redirects here anyway).--Nø (talk) 13:47, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Plural

What is the plural in English of hendiatris? I'm guessing something like hendiatrides, but I'd like to know for certain; and it might be good to include it in the article. Nuttyskin (talk) 14:46, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Nuttyskin: Something like that would be better referenced in Wiktionary. Looking at this word's entry over there, it seems that it is considered to be uncountable. --Tenryuu ² ( ¬ o Contributions/Tenryuu ) 22:26, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for looking. So I suppose, instead of a plural, one might say some examples of hendiatris.

Nuttyskin (talk) Nuttyskin (talk) 23:47, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In Greek, it's a phrase which ends in a word which is already plural (if treis), or in an adverb (if tris), so not pluralizable in that language... AnonMoos (talk) 22:54, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]