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minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up64·2 years agoI’m all for pedantry, but any human metaphor is clearly referring to a human perspective, and it’s very reasonable to call any temperature that is too high to sustain human life hot.
minus-squarePrehensile_cloaca @lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoYou certainly don’t need 5700K to do that. Garden variety Summer is enough, every year.
minus-squareMindTraveller@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoThat’s not a metaphor, it’s a comparison, which is when you state a difference between two things.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoSaying that your love burns hot is a metaphor, because love does not burn. The comparison is irrelevant.
minus-squarePrehensile_cloaca @lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agoWhat if love had a spicy burrito for lunch?
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoThen it remains a metaphorical burrito.
I’m all for pedantry, but any human metaphor is clearly referring to a human perspective, and it’s very reasonable to call any temperature that is too high to sustain human life hot.
You certainly don’t need 5700K to do that. Garden variety Summer is enough, every year.
That’s not a metaphor, it’s a comparison, which is when you state a difference between two things.
Saying that your love burns hot is a metaphor, because love does not burn. The comparison is irrelevant.
Oh, good point.
What if love had a spicy burrito for lunch?
Then it remains a metaphorical burrito.
No, probably carnitas.
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