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2618109 No.2618109 [Reply] [Original]

Ok /lit/ i have realised that it is impossible to think or even speak without using metaphors of any kind. And if you try it will only lead to your frustration.

>> No.2618110

Bump

>> No.2618118

>>2618109 my brain hurts

>> No.2618121

bump

>> No.2618142

Disagree.
At the company I work for I was assigned to teach a new hire. She was from Russia. Her English wasn't very good. While training her I realized for the first time in my life just how much I rely on metaphors, which she did not understand at all. I had to always speak to her never using figures of speach of any kind. It was hard to do but was possible. It was a good experience actually.

>> No.2618175

hey bros, if you like being aware of the use of metaphor in language, have i got an author for you!
his name is tao lin, thank me later.

>> No.2618271

>>2618175
Better: Talk to some autistic piece of shit on /lit/. He will put all your metaphors and phrases in "scare quotes".

>> No.2618306

>>2618142
Do you mean you were using idioms, which are really only locally understood, or just general metaphors? A parable of Jesus would is more interculturally understandable than "it's raining cats and dogs."

I'm sure this is just semantics, but in a strict sense, language itself is a metaphor. You are communicating using a signifier of an idea, not communicating the actual idea.

>> No.2618310

Try speaking in math next time. STEM superiority son.

>> No.2618337

> Ok /lit/ i have realised that it is impossible to think or even speak without using metaphors of any kind. And if you try it will only lead to your frustration.

No metafor in that passage. What shud one conclude from that?

>> No.2618355

>>2618306
Things like "over my head", "couldn't make heads nor tails of that", "hit it out of the ball park"... I don't know the proper terms for these things other than figures of speach. Anything I said to her that had a meaning that was not literal I had to avoid.

>> No.2618748

>>2618337
Why do you not use the "ph" digraph?