• 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.