Ever notice how contemporary English focuses less on the choice of big words for conveying something and more on the choice of words put into metaphors? Today I read this from someone's blog writing - 'it's a big deal like Godzilla's penis size' (Ouch). Jon Stewart the other day talked about going and doing his own thing - "I will Simon your Garfunkel ass and take off on my own".
I rather like this. I think it's imaginative, and I could never do it. My brain is not wired to think into metaphors.
On the other hand, as Ykas pointed out - CS people have this urge in them to use some technical jargon to describe something (am thankfully not in this category). I was drawing a graph on the board, you know, with nodes and edges. I erased edges to a group of nodes on one part of the graph, and said loudly - OK now what are these?
The CS guy replies - That is a disconnected component.
Yes Captain Obvious, I wasn't looking for a technical definition.
"I will Simon your Garfunkel ass" is a very clever play on words. Punny almost! :)
ReplyDeleteGodzilla's penis size vs Dr Manhattan's schlong dong, Hmm. The world weigh(t)s, the world waits!
Ha! We should do a poll.
ReplyDeleteHere's a guideline on metaphors worth using.
ReplyDeleteSheer brilliance.
http://www.qwertyed.com/q_pages/q6_fun_pages/analogies.html
You're welcome.
I know of some Hindi songs that have outstanding metaphors.
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