在拙作《启蒙,从语言开始》(《杂文月刊》2014年12月上)一文中,笔者曾言及学习和运用语言,应“将语法、修辞、逻辑三者结合起来”。讲究语法是为了把话说得正确,没有语病;讲究逻辑是为了把话说得合理,令人信服;而讲究修辞则是为了把话说得生动形象,从而感染人,给人以美的享受。语法和逻辑都是有既定规则的,原则性比较强,不可随意违背。修辞则相对灵活得多,尽管有些 In his essay “Enlightenment, Beginning with Language” (“Monthly of Essay”, December 2014), the author once said that learning and using language should “combine grammar, rhetoric and logic.” Pay attention to grammar in order to put it the right words, no language disease; pay attention to logic is to put it in a reasonable and convincing; and pay attention to rhetoric is to put it vividly, thus infect people, giving the United States to enjoy. Grammar and logic are established rules, the principle of relatively strong, not free to violate. Rhetoric is relatively more flexible, albeit some