Archive for the ‘Commentary’ Category
What Do Metaphors Say?
Posted by: lexpower on: June 22, 2011
asdfl All is connected, all is real, and all is metaphor. Do you think this statement is true? Recently I ran across a website of metaphor examples. According to its author, the site is based on the idea that metaphorical relationships can be considered to be “universal” in scope: a sort of Rosetta Stone between [...]
Language: The Government Wants Your Metaphors
Posted by: lexpower on: May 27, 2011
Did you know your tax dollars will soon be hard at work mining massive amounts of text? It seems that Uncle Sam’s spy researchers are building “software sieves” that will be able to parse automatically what English, Farsi, Russian and Spanish speakers say and write, and pluck out the metaphors lurking in their streams of [...]
Books: Shopping versus Buying and the Closing of Borders
Posted by: lexpower on: July 26, 2011
How many wonderful books have you stumbled upon while browsing in your favorite bookstore? Books you decided you couldn’t live without. Books you would never have found if you hadn’t been able to roam and wander and poke about among the overflowing tables, bins, stacks, bookcases and displays. Books that attracted your attention because of [...]