Wellerism

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Wellerisms , named after Sam Weller in the Charles Dickens novel The Pickwick Papers, mocks the existing cliches and phrases by pointing out that they are wrong in certain situations, often when taken literally. In this sense, wellerisms that include proverbs are anti-proverbial types. Usually wellerism consists of three parts: a proverb or maxim, a speaker, and a literal explanation that is often funny.

Sam Weller's tendency to use the types of construction now called "wellerisms" has inspired the drama; sometimes, playwrights have created more wells.

A type of well-knownism called Tom Swifty combines the attribution of a speaker to the cited statement.

Video Wellerism

An example of "The Pickwick Papers"

• "Come out with it, as he told his son, when he swallowed the farden."
• "Wery is glad to see you, and wishes that our acquaintance may be long, as the gen'l'm'n says in the 'even' note."
• "All good feelin ', sir - best intentions, because gen'l'm'n said that he ran away from his wife because he seemed unhappy with her."
• "There, we now look compact and comfortable, as my father said he cut off the head of his son, to heal him 'squintin'."
• "What I call adds' insult to injury, because the parrot says that they not only brought him from his native land, but made him speak with English loan sharks."
• "Sorry to do anything because it can cause disruption to the fun process, as the king said when he dissolved the parliament."

Maps Wellerism

English example

• "Everyone is his own taste," said the old lady as she kissed her cow.
• "We have to train that," the manager said as the coffin fell from the car.
• The body can get used to anything, even hanged, as the Irish says. (Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables )
• "This week started very well," said one who was to be hanged on Monday.
• "Lots of voices and a little wool," Satan said as he shaved the pig.
• "So I understand," said the blind carpenter as he took the hammer and looked.
• "Incredible," the teacher said when asked what he thought of the new dry-removal board.
• "I stand corrected," says the man in orthopedic shoes.

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Examples from other languages ​​

Some researchers concentrate on wellerisms found in English and European languages, but Alan Dundes documents them in Yoruba in Nigeria (Dundes 1964), with African scholars confirming and adding their findings (Ojoade 1980, Opata 1988, 1990). Wellerisms are also common in many Ethiopian languages, including Guji Oromo, (where nine out of 310 proverbs in published collections are wellerisms) and Alaaba (in which about 10% of the 418 proverbs are found to be excerpts). They are also found in ancient Sumeria: "Fox, after urinating into the sea, said: 'The depth of the sea is my urine!'"

Netherlands:

• "Every bit helps," says the mosquito and he's upset at sea.
  • (English: "Every little bit helps," said the mosquito and irritated at sea.
• "All in moderation," the tailor said, and he hit his wife with el.
  • (English: "Everything should be done measurably," the tailor said and beat his wife with a ruler. )

Hebrew:

• . ???? ?????, "?????? ???"
• (English: "We will wait and see", the blind said to the dead. >

Russia:

• "?? ????? ????!" ?????? ?????? ? ????????? ???????
  • (English: "Be bright!" says an electrician and cuts the cable. )

Antillean Creole French, Martinique:

• "The rabbit said, 'Eat everything, drink it all, but do not tell it all.'"

Sumer

• Horses, after he throws his rider [said], "If my burden is always so, I will be weak."

The sayings of Wellerism have been documented throughout Africa, Europe, western and southern Asia, but hardly any language in East Asia.

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Speaker options

In a number of languages, especially in Africa, wellerisms are formed with animals as speakers. In some cases, the choice of animals may not bring much meaning. However, in some cases, as in Chumburung in Ghana, the choice of a particular animal as a speaker is an important part of some proverb, "chosen appropriately for characteristics that describe the saying... The Chameleon says quickly both slowly and slowly is good. "Similarly, there is an Ewe adage that quotes animals that are particularly suited to the wellerism," Chickens say that, it is because of the humility that he submits before entering his enclosure. " Another example of a speaker who is specifically chosen to go with the statement in the well-being is "bats say that there is no difference between standing and erect", from the Tiv language in Nigeria.

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Phrase dialog

Wellerisms are similar but not identical to the proverbial dialogue. Wellerisms contain speeches from one speaker, but the proverbial dialogue contains direct speech from more than one. They are found in a number of languages, including Armenian, French, Georgian, Kasena Ghana, and Pashto from Afghanistan and Pakistan.

• "They asked the camel, 'Why is your neck crooked?' The camel burst out laughing, 'What am I doing right?' "Shor/Khkas (SW Siberia)
• "Let go of me, Spider!" "How can I let go of my flesh?" "Then move on, eat me!" "How can I eat flies?" - Kasena
• "I've caught a bear." "Get rid of him." "I can not, he will not let me go." - Armenian
• The herring said, "I will scream and the shepherd will forget," [and] the wolf says, "I'll eat the boy's tail." - Luri language from Iran

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See also

• Paraprosdokian

References

Further reading

• Dundes, Alan. 1964. Some Yoruba wellerisms, dialogue proverbs, and tongue twisters. Folk Story 75.
• Mac Coinnigh, Marcas, "The Crab's Walk: Wellerism and Fable (AT276) by Bo Almqvist". "Bis dat, qui cito dat" - Gegengabe in Paremiology, Folklore, Language, and Literature. Respect Wolfgang Mieder at His Seventies Birthday . 2014.
• Mieder, Wolfgang and Stewart A. Kingsbury, eds. Dictionary of Wellerisms , (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
• Mieder, Wolfgang, American Proverbs: Study of Text and Context (New York: Lang, 1989).
• Mieder, Wolfgang, Proverbs Never Running Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in Modern Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
• Ojoade, J. O. 1980. Some of Ilaje's messengers. Folklore 75 91.1: 63-71.
• Opata, Damian. 1988. Personal Attribution in Wellerisms. International Folklore Review 6: 39-41.
• Opata, Damian. 1990. Characterization of animal-derived wellerisms: selected Igbo samples. Proverbium 7: 217-231.
• Taylor, Archer, The Proverb (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1931).
• Taylor, Archer, The Proverb, and An Index to The Proverb (Hatboro, PA: Folklor Associates, 1962)
• Williams, Fionnuala Carson. 2001. Proverbs in wellerisms. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 52.1: 177-189.

External links

• Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington. The history of Pickwick; accounts about the characters, locations, figures and illustrations, with bibliography . London: Chapman & amp; Hall. 1891.

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