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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and snowclone

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while snowclone is a type of which uses an old idiom formulaically in a new context.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    snowclone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of which uses an old idiom formulaically in a new context.
  • * 2005 Nov 5, auuV, "Some articles that I like. They are about language," alt.running.out.of.newsgroup.names, Usenet
    • I stumbled upon the site the other day, when I was looking up the origins of the "Im not an X, but I play one on TV" snowclone .
  • * 2005' December 3, David Rowan, "Trendsurfing: ''''Snowclone ' journalism" [http://www.davidrowan.com/2005/12/trendsurfing-snowclone-journalism.html], ''The Times
    • Suddenly snowclone hunters were documenting media usages suggesting that, in space, no one can hear you belch, bitch, blog, speak, squeak or suck.
  • * 2006' Jun 20, Michael Erard, "Analyzing Eggcorns and '''Snowclones , and Challenging Strunk and White", in '' , page F4
    • Regular readers learned there first about snowclones , the basic building blocks of cliches, like "X is the new Y" or "you don't need a degree in A to do B."
  • * 2006 Jul, Mark Peters, "Not Your Father's Cliché", in 45(2), page 14
    • If so, you're being snowed under by snowclones — a category of fill-in-the-blank cliché identified by linguists.
  • * 2006' Nov 18, unknown author, "'''Snowclone ", in '' 192(2578), page 80
    • When you read phrases like these in a newspaper, you've stumbled across a particular type of cliché: the snowclone .

    Related terms

    * catchphrase * * meme * proverb

    See also

    *

    References

    * 2004 January 16, , “ Snowclones: lexicographical dating to the second]”, [[w:Language Log, Language Log]

    External links

    * (wikipedia "snowclone")