Metaphors, anybody?

[kerryg]

[Precisian mode = on]
15 is a simile too...
so's 19, 21, 22 and 25...

Similes compare things to one another
Metaphors state that things are something else:

e.g.
picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth - simile
The picket fences were Nancy Kerrican teeth to the garden's Marc Ellis tongue.

And for those disputing number 19 try it like this:
The shots rang out, just like normal shots doing their customary thing.

Yes...but...however... the widely-used words "metaphorical" and "metaphor" have a broader meaning than the strict textbook meaning (i.e. not to be "like" something but actually to "be" something...how about "Richard the Lionheart", one I remember from school?). In normal accepted daily English usage to make the distinction between speaking in terms of a thing being another (a metaphor), or being like another (a simile) is neither useful nor apposite, and "metaphor" and "metaphorical" can properly be construed as applying to both.

It's a living language.

[Yokai]

Yes...but...however... the widely-used words "metaphorical" and "metaphor" have a broader meaning than the strict textbook meaning (i.e. not to be "like" something but actually to "be" something...how about "Richard the Lionheart", one I remember from school?). In normal accepted daily English usage to make the distinction between speaking in terms of a thing being another (a metaphor), or being like another (a simile) is neither useful nor apposite, and "metaphor" and "metaphorical" can properly be construed as applying to both.

It's a living language.

But... but... actually, I think you'll find... (etc.. etc.. etc..)
What we tend to term "metaphorical" or "metaphor" is rather more properly termed "analogy". If someone described your ZX6R as a ZX10R, they'd be wrong, and denotes a lack of understanding of the ZX series. Describing a simile as a metaphor is incorrect and denotes a lack of understanding of the trope in question....

Yes, it's a living language. Yes words change their meaning. Yes this is far too serious for a funny thread and is probably annoying some people and yes that was an analogy up there... I reckon if someone's gonna wade in and correct someone elses grammar, then they open themselves to correction too....

(if I got the stuff about ZX6 and ZX10 machines wrong - sorry - I ride a Yamaha )

[ducatilover]

lol bout time i smiled today, who gives a fuck if there similie thingys or metalwhores they were funny esp no5 and the duck one cos the duck one reminded me of roast duck

[kerryg]

I reckon if someone's gonna wade in and correct someone elses grammar, then they open themselves to correction too....

Weeelllllll.....what little pot's calling the kettle black then? (BTW that was a metaphor, which is analagous to a simile [of which the plural is NOT similies]....)

But yes..we should return to scratching ourselves now lest the tone get too elevated.....

[hXc]

Simile - Comparing things using like or as -Her red heel was like a demonic rose.

Metaphor - Saying something is something else -Her face was ice.

[Swoop]

They're actually from the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest. Bulwer Lytton was the guy that opened his novel with "It was a dark and stormy night."

Oh! Oh! I remember that one from school camp!
"Twas a dark and stormy night,
and the toilet light was dim,
I heard a crash,
and then a splash,
by fuck he'd fallen in!"

I'm sure that was the one......

[kerryg]

Simile - Comparing things using like or as -Her red heel was like a demonic rose.

Metaphor - Saying something is something else -Her face was ice.

Yes. Well done. Now go and stand in the corner

[hXc]

Yes. Well done. Now go and stand in the corner

**Goes and stands in corner**
Can I come out now? Hello? Anybody there?

Rep me

[Macktheknife]

Oh! Oh! I remember that one from school camp!
"Twas a dark and stormy night,
and the toilet light was dim,
I heard a crash,
and then a splash,
by fuck he'd fallen in!"

I'm sure that was the one......

This one time, at band camp......


In days of old
When men were bold
And women weren't invented
Men drilled holes in telephone poles
And stood there quite contented.

In days of old
When men were bold
And Toilets weren't invented
Some poor soul fell down the Hole
And came out all 'sweet scented'

In days of old
When men were bold
And sheep were back in season
Those aussie blokes all wore long coats
And gumboots for 'no reason'!

I cant remember the last couple of verses but you get the idea.