Re: OT: Books on writing?

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

I agree with David. E.g., "family" has an extended meaning, it's no longer
a metaphor. (But backbone and pipeline sure don't go together.) But David's
right that something still echoes at some levels. And the vitality (?) of a
metaphor can vary from reader to reader.

Personally, I put skirts over my piano's, uh, lower extremities.
There is the difficult issue of exactly when a metaphor becomes a
dead metaphor. (Standard example being table leg(!), which, I take
it, none regard as metaphoric. As a friend once pointed out another
example is "dead metaphor". )
 I feel sure that "tools", in the quote, isn't metaphoric any longer
(if ever). The rest we could argue. But, I think the larger point is
that even dead metaphors (or even simply terms with multiple
meanings) keep their etymological and semantic echoes which can
clang when piled into the small chamber of a sentence.


On Oct 8, at 9:21 PM, Carl Distefano wrote:

Reply to note from "Patricia M. Godfrey"  Mon, 08
Oct 2007 20:27:26 -0400
Adobe upgraded and relaunched (!) its entire family (!) of
software tools (!) that have become the backbone (!) of today's
copyediting and production pipeline (!).

Ha, very good. So how did you rewrite it?

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Carl Distefano
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David Auerbach
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Harry Binswanger
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