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From: dinitz@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: metaphors - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 7-May-84 14:02:00 EDT
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uicsl!dinitz    May  7 13:02:00 1984

FLAME ON

Your complaint that a comparison using "like" is a simile (and not a
metaphor) is technically correct.  But it shows that you're not
following the research.  Metaphor or simile (or juxtaposition, etc.),
these figures of speech raise the same problems and questions of how
analogical reasoning works, how comparisons convey menaning, how do
people dream them up, and how do other people understand them.  For
this reason the word metaphor is used to refer collectively to the
whole lot of them.  Pretending you're a high school English teacher
doesn't help.

FLAME OFF