Function not data. Is how you understand a metaphor.

[RandomThoughts]

Look at the verbs not the nouns.

That is how metaphors work. They use a function on some data set. A metaphor is using the same function as something else, but a different data set.

If you want to learn how a metaphor works, it is function not data. Most literalist look at the data in a metaphor, not the function.

Most Orwellians try to reverse the data in a function for a bad outcome to a function meant for a good outcome.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. function = action. data = information

can a metaphor be a similie?

[nolabear]

2. Nope.

A metaphor is tighter, an equivalency rather than a resemblance. "The moon's the North Wind's cookie" vs "The moon's like the North Wind's cookie." Taken, btw, from one of my favorite children's poetry books.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. oh dear

you took me literally. my bad.

[rbnyc]

4. Forget it.

I tried to say something that probably shouldn;t be said. Nevermind.

Peace.

P.S. I think you're getting at something very interesting.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. I do too...perhaps, I made light of it but, at the core there is some honesty

that can not be denied.

[TheManInTheMac]

6. That's fuckin deep, man...

Shit. I got this, dude. I understand everything now.

Wow!