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From: merlyn@sequent.UUCP
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Subject: Re: metaphors
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Date: Wed, 2-May-84 08:35:51 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

Ahh, but "Telephones are lemons" is fairly easy to interpret.
It just depends on the type of fruit. :-}

Randal L. ("life is like a banana") Schwartz, esq. (merlyn@sequent.UUCP)
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P.S. I never metaphor I didn't like. (on a zero to four scale)