I watch this Zoe bee video a little over a month ago. Talking about how we use metaphors to grasp abstract concepts, how we use it in our daily life and how we use as map, in our politics and so on. Something imo she didn’t focus enough is the metaphor we forget were ever metaphors(fun fact: the word “metaphor” has the world “meta”). This use one here, its like the three fishes with water. You see it so much you forgot it ever existed.
The bible.
It’s unfortunately been distorted a lot with translations over time, but it was originally a story about morales in a world of greed.
If Jesus came back he would be crucified again for being too “woke”.
This isn’t true at all. He’d be shipped to El Salvador for being brown first.
Actually, I think he’s be on a street corner being generally ignored by everyone as he prophesied ‘all the read words’ like a looney. I doubt he’d be taken seriously at all.
Sadly.
Maybe he came back really quite some time ago and died in obscurity trying desperately the whole time to persuade everyone he was a big deal and ever since people are still waiting around wondering "when’s this second coming happening?’ having no idea they missed it and it was pretty lame.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Shaka when the walls fell.
Temba, his arms wide
Captain America, the reference understood
I. Am GROOT.
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“Figuring something out”
“Finding something out”
“Discovering something”
“Break that down for me”
“Empty nesters”
“Building a case”
“Play your part”
“Influenza”
“Lunatic”
“Hysterical”
“Barbaric”
“Romantic”
Words that literally refer to mythological characters of literature but metaphorically have a meaning relating to aspects of those characters:
“Venereal”
“Hermaphrodite”
“Aphrodisiac”
“Quixotic”
“Tantalizing”
“Chaos”
“Herculean task”
“Narcissist”
“Oedipus complex”
“Atlas”
“Cloth”
“Echo”
“Erotic”
“Fortune”
“Jovial”
“Martial”
“Mercurial”
“Panic”
“Mentor”
“Office siren”
“Titanic”
Bugs Bunny singlehandedly changed the meaning of “Nimrod” because people don’t understand sarcasm.
Do you have a source for that?
Honestly, our own sight is a kind of “metaphor” - what we see is a construction the brain creates to make sense of visual data, but it is not those visual data themselves, in some sense we only see in metaphors.
Maybe that bends the meaning of metaphor. Maybe better examples would be like skeumorphisms in graphical user interfaces, e.g. a trashbin on a desktop that you can drag files to. Obviously there is no literal trashbin, but I think people start to think in terms of those metaphors and forget there aren’t actual files and folders and a trashbin, and when the computer behaves in a way that doesn’t accord with those metaphors, it’s frustrating and confusing for them.
