Talk:remember

remember a memory

Can we say "remember a memory"? — This comment was unsigned.

She always remembered him on his birthday.

give somebody a gift: She always remembered him on his birthday.
Microsoft® Encarta® 2009

The example doesn't match the current definition --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:19, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Re-member (opposite of dismember)

On Wiktionary talk:Hall of Fame, the question was posed, can remember ever mean "re-member (the opposite of dismember)"? It's hard to search for, and this cite is explicitly the usual sense:

• 2007, Paul Muldoon, The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (→ISBN), page 142:

  I use these words together at the prompting of Stevie Smith herself, writing in an uncollected poem published in the Poetry Review of September 1984:

  Henry Wilberforce as a child / Was much addicted to the pleasures of the wild. / He observed Nature, saw, remembered. / And was by a natural lion dismembered.

  The connection between re- and dismembering might be said to be the subject of the poem in hand, despite the fact that the words have different roots—“remember” stemming from rememorari, “to be mindful of once more,” “dismember” from dismembrare, […]

But this one does explicitly invoke the rarer ("re-member") sense:

• 2012, Roy Melvyn, The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin: Pointers to Non Duality in Five Volumes, Lulu Press, Inc (→ISBN)

  To dismember is to tear apart; To re-member is to put back together. The old must be dismembered So that which was prior to it May be remembered. Therefore, to re-mind is To dismember and then re-member.

As does this one, although it is confused about Egyptian mythology:

• 2003, The Nairobi Journal of Literature, page 65:

  And lastly I am using it in the sense of reconnecting the previously separated, joining the previously disjointed, in short re-membering that which had been dismembered. The story of dismembering and remembering goes all the way back to ancient Egypt in the story of Osiris and Isis. Isis was dismembered by his enemy and [...Osiris moved] to collect all the pieces and re-^{[hyphenated at a line break]}membered that which had been so callously dis-membered.

Nonetheless, the idea of searching together with Osiris proved fruitful:

• 2010, Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth, page 100:

  She remembered Osiris by putting his pieces back together and mating with him one last time, conceiving Horus, who eventually avenged his father's death.

• 2008, Jan Assmann, Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, page 42:

  According to these mysteries, the rites of fashioning or re-^{[hyphenated at a line break]}membering Osiris came to be interpreted as remembering Egypt. Egypt was the body of Osiris, dismembered and scattered across the land.

• 1982, Book Review Digest, volume 78, page 824:

  knit 'this scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, / these broken limbs again into one body ' - in other words, how to resurrect the dismembered god, to remember Osiris. Yet the only body made whole in these expert, lowering poems is the body of this death.

• 2020, Jenni Ramone, Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace, Springer Nature (→ISBN), page 122:

  it is a praise name for a central figure in Ancient Egyptian culture, the dismembered and remembered Osiris, a sorrowful reminder of our human vulnerability to division, fragmentation and degeneration, and at the same time a symbol of our equally human capacity for […] regeneration"

This one seems to play on both interpretations, but is the "recall" sense:

• 2013, Jonathan F. S. Post, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry, page 367:

  Cleopatra, like her predecessor, has the power to dismember and remember male subjects. […] She imitates the supernatural goddess in order to remember Antony in embodied mythic terms. Cleopatra's love poetry of mourning makes Antony 'dolphin-like' by magnifying his body parts 'above | The element they lived in'.

And this one could either be "re-member" (since it speaks of "reconstruction"), or could be "recall" and be using "dismember" as an antonym to that:

• 2019, Meredith Oenning-Hodgson, The hiss of hope: A voyage with Parkinson’s toward an intimate autonomy, Chiron Publications

  […] what we experience as the spark to trigger a regression, a return to a former or less developed state, where one can dismember and then remember. With the firm holding of anaclitic therapy's scaffold, ego control can be at least partially surrendered in an open space of potential reorganization. A reconstruction of an autonomous personality that is open to intimacy, […]

(There may be other examples findable in searches like google books:"dismember and remember".) - -sche (discuss) 08:04, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Might merit some kind of label, or maybe not a label but something like {{qualifier|when apposed to dismember}}? - -sche (discuss) 09:19, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

rememb'r

For thy sweet love rememb'red such wealth brings / That then I scorn to change my state with kings

What is the pronunciation rememb'red represents?

Is this pattern productive in contexts other than the inflexional addition of -ed? --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:33, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

That looks wrong. The word I've always seen in this sonnet is "remembered" spelled properly. The purpose of the apostrophe in general is to skip a syllable to preserve poetic meter, e.g. "o'er" (one syllable) instead of "over". Equinox ◑ 14:22, 8 October 2020 (UTC)