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| Heat-Related Deaths and Fishing Metaphors | | 2007-06-12 17:27:00 | | Fred has left a new comment on "Suggest a Topic!":"How about your analysis of global warming using the sport's heat-related deaths and injuries as your only indicator? That is, notwithstanding other evidence (surely a loaded phrase in and of itself, even though it shouldn't be), graph global warming (or global cooling, or neither) based solely on track and field’s increases (or decreases, or neither) in heat-related deaths and injuries."If I had to answer your question "using the sport's heat-related deaths and injuries as [my] only indicator," I'd have the shortest analysis ever:There isn't enough evidence to make a claim either way.If you'll allow me to widen the net just a bit, I could actually get enough statistics in the boat to do a proper analysis and to make a valid claim, one way or another."Go ahead, matey," you say? You like fishing metaphors? Thanks. I appreciate that.The CDC reports that, "from 1979-2003, excessive heat exposure caused 8,015 deaths in the United St... | | By: Finish Line Pundit: A Track & Field Blog | | |
| | Metaphors That In Theory Don't Work | | 2007-06-07 03:17:00 | | I spent an inordinate amount of time considering the phrase "drink like a fish" today. I'm not a marine biologist, but I didn't have the impression that fish actually drank water. Sure, they use the water to aspirate, but I didn't think they guzzled it down. So it might make more sense to say "drinks like a drunkard." The whole aspirate thing got me thinking of another phrase people use in reference to fresh air, and other sensory-things. "She/he drank in the (fill in blank with non liquid reference)." Consider I'm standing outside in the fresh air. If I go by the metaphorical logic that I'm "drinking in the fresh air" like a fish aspirates water, then I could be considered drunk. But it being that I'm referencing air, it means I'm drunk on a gas. So wouldn't it be more appropriate to say, "She was high on the fresh air" as opposed to "She was drunk with the fresh air around her" or however you'd write it?I think I need better distractions.... | | By: In Java, Literally... | | |
| | Mixed Fruits and Metaphors | | 2007-05-02 06:01:00 | | EXT. GARDEN OF EDEN. DAY.Adam is busily scribbling on a piece of paper with a pencil when God quietly walks up beside him.God: Hey Adam, what's up?Adam: Oh, uh... hey, there, God. I was just, you know, coming up with some more animal names.God: I thought you named all the animals already.Adam: The Mediterranean animals, yeah. But I figure that you've got a lot of animals in other climates that still need names.God: What's a 'polar bear'?Adam: Geez, I don't know. A bear that like poles? You don't have to use it if you don't want.God: No, no, it's a good name. I'll come up with something. Ooh, I like this one. Kangaroo. Sounds like something you could put in your pocket. Speaking of which, I noticed you're wearing trousers stitched together from leaves.Adam: Oh, that. Yeah, I was feeling a little self-conscious with all my, you know, parts hanging out.God: Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?Adam: Ummmm... Actually that was the woman.God: The woman?... | | By: Mattress Police - Antisocial Commentary | | |
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| Metaphors that Entrap | | 2006-08-27 09:16:00 | | A large body of research has been conducted into what is termed by cognitive scientists as metaphor. So as not to muddy the waters, think of metaphor as a template or lens through which you view the world. Cognitive scientists have been systematically unpacking the significance of conceptual metaphor in our daily lives since the sixties. Those scholars propose that metaphors are not simply playthings of the mind, but are a “natural outgrowth of the manner in which our minds are constituted”. What that means is that conceptual metaphors are product of your neurophysiology, that you have a genetic predisposition to attribute meaning to things by way of metaphor. George Lakoff is professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California at Berkely and he asserts that metaphor rules almost all of our thinking:“We may not always know it, but we think in metaphor. A large proportion of our most commonplace thoughts make use of an extensive, but unconscious, system of metaphorical concepts, that is, concepts from a typically concrete realm of thought that are used to comprehend another, completely different domain. Such concepts are often reflected in everyday language, but their most dramatic effect comes in ordinary reasoning. Because so much of our social and political reasoning makes use of this system of metaphorical concepts, any adequate appreciation of even the most mundane social and political thought requires an understanding of this system. But unless one knows that the system exists, one may miss it altogether and be mystified by its effects”.On the conscious level metaphor can create shortcuts to understanding: cognition as the crow flies. Say, you have a complex idea you need to get across. The choice is yours: you can take your audience on a energy-sapping trek through the terrain, cross raging rivers of data, scale each conceptual obstacle as you come to it and finally, if you’re lucky, arrive at your destination. Or, you can invite them t... | | By: CharismaCom | | |
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