#Metaphors

shirinvossoughi

shirinblue

a global pandemic is not pearl harbor, is not 9/11. War metaphors continue breathing life into the American arrogance that helped lead to the very large number of people currently

ellen fishbein

EllenRhymes

Wanna 10x your writing skills?Become a master of metaphor."Metaphor? Like, fluffy poetry stuff?!"Yeah, no... the way it's taught in school is ABYSMAL. Aristotle wrote, “The greatest thing by far is

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Today I'm going to be writing about eels in figurative language. Examining metaphors, similes, etc. is a useful way of getting a sense for a historical culture.Lots of metaphors =

jared

djaredh

currently thinking about how its straight unreal how a faulty computational metaphor for how the brain works (as a serial processor that uses logical rules to manipulate symbols) still totally

César A. Hidalgo

cesifoti

Map Time!So you’ve seen a lot of maps in the last few days. What maps work, which ones don’t, and how to think about them? Time for a thread !

Cameron Harwick 🏛

C_Harwick

New paper "Unmixing the Metaphors of Austrian Capital Theory"—where I criticize the Hayek-Garrison model, offer a path forward, and argue for capital theory's independence from business cycle theory—is up at

Matthew Butcher

matthew1butcher

I'm spending my day reading about messaging and Covid-19 (i'm cool, I know). So many people doing interesting stuff. Thought I'd share a few:(1/n) I'm starting with the incredible @anatosaurus's

Peter Smythe

PeterSmythe444

1. I was just going through several month (so-called) "anti-SJW" content on YouTube relating to transgender, non-binary and issues relating to those.I feel like it is close to impossible and

Christopher L. Caterine, Ph.D.

clcaterine

Write a famous line of literature. I will reply with a translation into terrible business-speak. Let's see how long we can all keep it going.(Expect lots of passive voice, mixed

Jeannette Ng 吳志麗

jeannette_ng

I didn't decide to write stories if I didn't like them and didn't believe in their power and all that, but for all that art (even bad art) can inspire,

sofia⁷🌻 #OHMYGOD

baloneynacl

ill be making my fic bingo!! time to put my 600+ ao3 bookmarks to usei apologize to all authors i will @ for the inconveniences, im just. really bad at

mars @ i hate dabe

severedarms

i found a treasure trove of malaphors and now im thinking about riggs Not Quite But Almost Getting Metaphors and Idioms Correct Favorites"well burn that bridge when we get to

John Cook

johnfocook

1/12 Just deconstructed & debunked myth “Models downgraded COVID-19 deaths from 100,000+ to 60,000 so we can relax social distancing,” with Phil Newell at @climatenexus. Here’s a graphic explaining the

smear🔅

smearzz

Why I think Denji (CSM) is a great and a severely underappreciated character ; a thread For the people who hasn't read CSM, I'm sure you have seen Denji in

Jason Yuan

jasonyuandesign

My software design philosophy is rooted in stage design and the theatre: Simplify a complex world into simple metaphors (rooted in and real world physics), under unforgiving physical constraints, for

Lady Laura Conlon

BYOBiscuitsLCon

I feel like I have "no more space" in my head for new ideas, things to enjoy, opinions, to look after myself but then I look inside myself to see