Comments on: Bad metaphors in activism

By: Dara

Dara — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:56:41 +0000

Maybe the terms are not technically ‘metaphors’ to some, but I still think this post is really interesting. One thing I learned in Journalism school was to be very careful using metaphors–they are often inaccurate.

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:32:40 +0000

I’m not sure those are really metaphors. They seem to be more incorrectly used (or misunderstood) figures of speech.

And if we’re going there, I’m starting with “steep learning curve”.

By: LS

LS — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:19:39 +0000

and up your default font size for shit’s sake

By: LS

LS — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:14:18 +0000

Honestly, I’m underwhelmed. All three of these seem pretty reasonable even in the face of your explanations.

I would rather see a post on the use of phrases like “slippery slope” and “begs the question,” and “ran dot org backslash …”.