Metaphorical Changes
The traditional metaphors that we are used to deploying, almost unreflectively, in various types of social exchanges are distinctively corporeal. When we agree with each other, we say that we see eye-to-eye, and when we fight we struggle hand-to-hand. When we seek justice, it is tooth-for-a-tooth, and our bonds of solidarity bring us together shoulder-to-shoulder. Conversations take place heart-to-heart, and we move ahead hand-in-hand.
It seems, however, that the metaphors that we shall be using in the near future will instead be ethereal ones : we shall agree email-to-email, quarrel fax-to-fax, see .jpg-to.jpg, discuss blog-to-blog, and bond together net-to-net.
posted by The Transparent Ironist @ 8:30 am
2 Comments:
At 2.4.05,
Shantisudha said…
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At 2.4.05,
Anonymous said…
despite of these metaphorical changes we need our traditional ones...as there is very less touch of reality (emotions) in e-mail-to-e-mail, blog-to-blog, net-to-net
...........to understand or realise the reality we need traditional heart-to-heart one.
Just like eventhough we are using graphic calculators for complex calculation purposes to design the program we need our old traditional, basic operations like addition etc
Just like eventhough u lost your tooth brush and tooth paste and to avoid embarrasing situation instead borrowing it from some friend or to avoid inhyginic condition we can use our traditional way of brushing like brush your teeth with fingure by using a sault :-)
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