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@aescling it’s a perfectly fine example because interpreting “metaphor” as “a figure of speech” is clearly nonsensical (Zelda is not a figure of speech), yet the sentence is sensical, therefore that interpretation of metaphor must be the wrong one

@aescling surely you are not arguing “Zelda is a metaphor for how trauma provides an opportunity for white women to confront how the forces which oppress them are necessarily implicated in their own whiteness” is nonsensical or ungrammatical

@aescling but you agree it does take one

@aescling you would be wrong since “X is a metaphor” takes a prepositional phrase, “for Y”, which makes no fucking sense with your definition

@aescling as opposed to “speaking metaphorically” meaning telling an invented story which is made to stand in for something real, which was the first option in the poll

@aescling when someone says “X is a metaphor” that means X is a figure of speech like “the mountains were a great maw rising towards the stars”

@aescling so when you think people are speaking metaphorically that means they are saying “her smile was a sunrise” a bunch

@coriander it's like punching only your fist is large and filled with compressed air

@aescling taking your phone in the shower will not give your pokémon walkies

@aescling get wet

@coriander these posts are extremely “trying to start a cult without actually starting a cult” vibes

@coriander you're being a curmudgeon but it's valid ✨

@aescling anyway i meant desktop distros not embedded/server

@aescling not sure i would describe alpine as “pretty ok”

@coriander counterpoint: golden retrievers