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Don’t You Know Who I Am?@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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Don’t You Know Who I Am?@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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Show me where I said we can’t use it.

“And it isn’t even true.” does not mean “stop using that metaphor”
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  What exactly does it mean then?
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    That it isn’t literally fucking true.
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      So then we’re back to the original reply that you don’t understand metaphors. No one thinks it’s literally fucking true. That’s how metaphors work.

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