#Metaphors

Jericho Brown

jerichobrown

Let’s see if I can teach this in a thread before my 5:30 appointment. Every metaphor is made up of two parts: the tenor & the vehicle, as in “the

Shreyas Doshi

shreyas

Something I’ve observed over the years:Product Managers who always win real-time debates about product issues — with their quips, eloquent arguments, bulletproof analogies & metaphors — tend to build surprisingly

Nikolaus Sabathiel

SissiPhys

Life consists of many micro circles of Kegan Stages / Hero's Journeys. Every Learning starts with ignorance, then transitions into becoming conscious of not knowing.This leads to conscious practice of

Bruno Maçães

MacaesBruno

I am stunned to see serious modelers argue that we should compare infection growth in different countries on absolute terms rather than per capita You are telling me population size

Jonathan Hastie, MD

hastie_md

I’ve been thinking about the usage of “at the front lines” to describe nurses, doctors, and therapists providing direct clinical care. More battle imagery.#COVID19 https://twitter.com/hastie_md/status/1244329903924883462 Once again, it’s understandab

Karl Jacoby

karl_jacoby

Historian here: Comparing "Pearl Harbor" to Covid-19 is a terrible historical analogy; it panders to anti-Asian racism; obscures why working-class communities are more vulnerable to the virus; and erases the

Taylor Pearson

TaylorPearsonMe

Just posted a summary and my notes from John Galls' wonderful book Systemantics, a wonderful (and funny) book on how systems workSome of my favorite lines....https://taylorpearson.me/bookreview/systemantics/ SYSTEMS IN GENERAL WORK

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OnikasdracoX

Female Rappers that caught my attention. A Thread: 5 Star Chick: When I first saw this video I was stuck. I never seen a female rapper look this good and

Vicky Stein, sitting in a box

AgentRedSquirrl

Trying to come to terms with our van journey being officially over. I know we were so lucky to ever have gotten the opportunity to travel and live like this

Holly, employed maths elf!

hollymathnerd

Multiple DMs asking me to comment since I'm the only deaf person many of you "know." My thoughts: 1) "Tone deaf" is not an ableist term. Using deaf or tone

Brian

1hopefulpatriot

Season 2 of #TheBoys turns up the volume on its #antiAmerican theme, making fun of traditional #Americanculture #Homelander is a #Superman analog, he represents America and wears a stylized

Julian Sanchez

normative

Here’s an irrational thing about the assault on §230 that I haven’t seen emphasized enough. You can’t actually forbid platforms employing their judgment to curate (or “censor”) content. That’s protected

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itboypercy

Hoseok's triple entendres all through piece of peace and his metaphors all through airplane, his wordplay in ma city, satoori rap, triple entendres in ddaeng, and insane rhyming schemes in

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paeonyparadise

we don't speak enough about how jinyoung's mainly writes songs about GOT7 and us but being the virgo that he is, he tries to write it as vaguely as possible

Nesrin Amin (Bilmasri)

bilmasripodcast

Teaching translation in the age of an ever-more awesome Google Translate - thread (I know I’m Twitter-invisible so please do share to anyone who may want to engage) /1 So

Aliette de Bodard

aliettedb

Ok, so here's a thread about how I use words in worldbuilding. (1/?) Words are super important, and their connotations are going to vary across languages and cultures, and across