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minus-squareWaxedWookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoA flawed one - because life doesn’t stop in an emergency… You know - the thing people were saying. …Or do you think metaphors have magical reality-warping powers?
minus-squareaname@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·7 months agoFirst you don’t understand a metaphor and then you take it literally. Metaphors are not literal truths, they are metaphors
minus-squareWaxedWookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoMetaphors aren’t literal, but they are descriptive. Describing something that doesn’t stop as something that stops is a bad metaphor. “Hair of midnight” is a metaphor, but not one you’d use to describe a blonde. This isn’t complex.
A flawed one - because life doesn’t stop in an emergency… You know - the thing people were saying.
…Or do you think metaphors have magical reality-warping powers?
First you don’t understand a metaphor and then you take it literally.
Metaphors are not literal truths, they are metaphors
Metaphors aren’t literal, but they are descriptive. Describing something that doesn’t stop as something that stops is a bad metaphor.
“Hair of midnight” is a metaphor, but not one you’d use to describe a blonde.
This isn’t complex.