• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      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?

      • aname@lemmy.one
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        8 months ago

        First you don’t understand a metaphor and then you take it literally.

        Metaphors are not literal truths, they are metaphors

        • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          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.