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From: wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: metaphors
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Date: Tue, 1-May-84 13:49:46 EDT
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"Telephones are like grapefruits" is a SIMILE, not a metaphor. To be
a metaphor, it would be "Telephones are grapefruits", and would be harder
to interpret...

Will