Posts Tagged ‘Knowledge’
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 [...]
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 [...]