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Devoted to discovering, identifying, and using uncommonly high quality non-literal comparisons (metaphors, metonymies, similes, analogies, etc.). Send 'em my way! For much, much more go to metaphorsandbeyond dot com.
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here's the link to the article: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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By placing the focus on the lug nuts via the observation of loosening Richardson allows for more bus wheel problems in the future; moreover she encourages readers to anticipate greater future problems with the bus. #metaphorsandbeyond
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Or moving from the electricity research lab to the construction site: as James Geary puts it: “A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.”
Thanks @eireannmor.bsky.social!
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In her book D-Day Girls, Sarah Rose allows us to observe how one British officer uses extreme liquid-measure description to capture his distain. Fun exercise: ask you favorite AI about the holding capacity of a gnat's navel. Not much; hence the point of the metaphor observation. #metaphorsandbeyond
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The combo of spin and vertigo from two different sectors (parties and personal sense of perceptual stability) prove potent in suggesting instability. Would you hire such a DJ? #metaphorsandbeyond
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Well placed and expressed critique of MSMedia slothful use of metaphors. Thanks @femiyahtzee.bsky.social! #metaphorsandbeyond
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Or, as James Geary puts it: “A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.” #metaphorsandbeyond
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Some Swift comparisons are more aromatic than others: wix.to/DB6rGOG
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Well noted difference @paulrosenberg.bsky.social! Thanks! #metaphorsandbeyond
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Paraprosdokians (even microwaved ones) do the work required. Thanks @justjohn99.bsky.social! #metaphorsandbeyond
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Maybe try an e-book on Apple books or on a Kindle? Could make a difference! apple.co/42s9gAi
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Just make absolutely sure that the lane has recent, fresh wax on it. Thanks @anthonyseiver.bsky.social! #metaphorsandbeyond
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Stands to reasone that the new Pope would even recognize the stealth metaphor of "staggering." Nice! Thanks @crobertcargill.bsky.social! #metaphorsandbeyond
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Valid heart warming (which remains one of our most somatesthesia-focused stealth metaphors). Thanks Sea Shanty Stan! #metaphorsandbyond
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Hmmmmm . . .
"cutting," "refining," "condensing," "strengthening," and "distilling" all seem like useful stealth metaphors. Perhaps next time "monkey around," "candy-coating," or "wheeling and dealing" would be helpful alternatives? Thanks Todd Dillard! #metaphorsandbeyond
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Wonderful insights all around including several on metaphors (e.g., ""Some of them were using metaphors. OPENLY. And don’t even get me started on similes. Similes are like ideological gateway drugs—soft at first, then suddenly . . . "). Thanks @mcsweeneys.net! #metaphorsandbeyond
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So said John Locke, yet we still use them. Paradoxically by designating metaphors as "the enemy" of reason, said poster uses a metaphor to make the case that metaphors are undesirable. (BTW it didn't work for JLocke either.) #metaphorsandbeyond
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Good to realize that stealth metaphors such as "reach for" and "spells out" and "clear-headed" can serve as a conceptual bridges in a sentence (such as "conceptual bridge") without raising (there's another one) any metaphorical awareness or dust. Thanks @adamsquire86.bsky.social! #metaphorsandbeyond
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Such a wonderful, skillful exploration of expectations and failed production of actual language that could have made a difference. Well done @albertburneko.bsky.social! #metaphorsandbeyond
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Well noted @jaredwesley.ca! Thanks. Violence is not the answer. #metaphorsandbeyond
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Well noticed! Thanks Sun Wukong! #metaphorsandbeyond
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Here are a couple for you! Enjoy! #metaphorsandbeyond
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Nothing quite like a quicksilver paraprosdokian. Thanks @call634-5789.bsky.social! #metaphorsandbeyond
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If we are steeped in an exceptionally steep place via the resources of a stealth metaphor such as "on the precipice," the view may well be breathtaking. Enjoy! #metaphorsandbeyond
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Helpful review/insight. The stealth metaphor of digging "deeper into a well of loneliness and rage." shows how such metaphors deliver both depth and insight. Thanks @thehighsign.bsky.social! #metaphorsandbeyond
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More Edward Johnson: "$400 million for Trump’s new gold-plated sky chariot, and another $350 million just to make it functional. . . . I am amazed that Congress let's this happen. They do control the purse strings."
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Some, of course, believe that we find certain dams already obliterated; rebuilding may take years (decades?). Unleashed brutality is not acceptable. (And leashed, or unleashed, is a very non-water, but applicable stealth metaphor for our current times and political environment.) #metaphorsandbeyond
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Well put Orson Scott Card! Thanks @daninthebox.bsky.social! And container stealth metaphors are among our most reliable for insight. #metaphorsandbeyond
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Thanks @sirrahynot1.bsky.social! Many of those DJT marbles have fallen in deep cracks never to be seen again. #metaphorsandbeyond
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And stealth metaphors such as "lens" frequently "frame" (another stealth metaphor) our understanding (another deep, stealth metaphor). So it goes. Thanks Myra Cheng! #metaphorsandbeyond
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If you fall below 45 cards, can you still be king-ed? Thanks @jazzrat2000.bsky.social! #metaphorsandbeyond