#Metaphor

clark 🍄🌲

bogspectre

These paintings are truer than photorealism. They signify the essence of each animal, make it comprehensible to someone who has never seen one. It is a different mode of communication,

Kyle 🌱

KylePlantEmoji

Saying that wearing a mask during a pandemic is "living in fear" is like saying that using oven mitts means you're "afraid" of the oven Also there's a good chunk

EMS

USgovtbomb

Norse and Old English have a grammatical feature known as Kenning.The closest thing in modern English to Kenning is perhaps "portmanteau". Its literal meaning in french is ‘carry-cloak’ but translates

Holly, employed maths elf!

hollymathnerd

I've been down for the count with mononucleosis but several of you tagged me to this thread and I shall oblige you and problematize all of these things. Here we

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

BostonJoan

While the attention economy is one metaphor to describe social media as a content distribution system, it is woefully inadequate to model policy on. It turns debate about problems exacerbated

R.Сам 🦋🐏

Logo_Daedalus

Liberal-Libertarian theory is itself a sort of MKULTRA discourse in which you have to "disassociate" into a pure noetical realm of symbolic logic before you're allowed to speak with authority.

chloe

smoakinghaught

thread of why seven is about two female children in love with each other: let’s start with why it’s about a female: so these are gonna be stereotyping, just a

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yoongiteas

the second concept I’d like to turn to is reflection – looking into a mirror or self-contemplation. Burn It gives us the line “there’s someone in the mirror that you

James Hanna

BullFrogJam

If you have a method for getting GMs (who already put more time into their games than their players do) to learn new games and bring them to their tables,

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nilanjanmaitra

Some good tips for your English class.1. Avoid alliteration. Always.2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.3. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)4. Employ the vernacular.5. Eschew

Christian Tu-Cheesy Potatoes

chrtucci

Here's a thread of examples of rhetorical devices in Taylor Swift lyrics: 1. ADNOMINATION: the repetition of words with the same root in a sentence.“That you never loved me, or

Steve Q Williams

SteveQWilliams

No matter what is said in a given conversation, the far-left mind will cynically project the 'real' motives behind the language.The words *cannot* be taken prima facie. Instead they are

mylagoslife

TzarIan

Sunday school was a very important part of my child hood . I loved it - the food , the drummer at praise & worship but most importantly the stories

Charlie Stross

cstross

Good morning world. Am now trying to work out how to deal with the existence of COVID-19 in the Laundry Files, because this is *total* turd-in-the-punchbowl time for alternate-present fictional

Janine Francois

itsJaninebtw

Those of us whose Africanness is situated via slavery have a different ontological experience to being 'African' white supremacy systemically denied our ability to trace our lineage, its a violence

The Year That Was Podcast

TYTWPodcast

My husband is a chemistry prof, and he HATES it when people use entropy as a synonym for disorder. He explains about the laws of thermodynamics, and I have no