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Your analogy is flawed, that's not what "lifetime warranty" means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warranty#Lifetime_warranty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warran
by lorenzhs 9y ago
Your analogy is flawed, that's not what "lifetime warranty" means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warranty#Lifetime_warranty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warranty#Lifetime_warranty "A lifetime warranty is usually a warranty against defects in materials and workmanship that has no time limit to make a claim, rather than a warranty that the product will perform for the lifetime of the buyer.[6] The actual time that product can be expected to perform is normally determined by the custom for products of its kind used the way the buyer uses it."
- axlprose 9y agoBut that still works with op casually saying it'll last for a different interpretation of the word "lifetime" than might first be expected, namely a timeframe more closely aligned with the lifetime of the product than the buyer. Secondly, it seems odd to be pedantic about such a detail when the comment itself already defines the details relevant to the analogy, making it a self-contained statement even if you didn't know what warrantees were. An analogy doesn't have to map 1-to-1 to work, as that's what makes it an analogy as opposed to an equivalence. Saying that a dog is as big as a cat doesn't make it a flawed analogy just because the dog doesn't have sharp claws and pointy ears.