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> I have yet to meet a person who can throw a Kalashnikov... It’s a figure of speech called a metonym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy https://en.wikipe
by matt4077 9y ago
> I have yet to meet a person who can throw a Kalashnikov...
It’s a figure of speech called a metonym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy. Quote: “Tools/instruments: Often a tool is used to signify the job it does or the person who does the job, as in the phrase "the press" (referring to the printing press), or as in the proverb, "The pen is mightier than the sword."
And what you are doing is a bad-faith method of disrupting debate called “pedantic illiteracy”.
- shadowtree 9y agoThank you, learned a new phrase. And 'pedantic illiteracy' really hit the nail on its head, social media comments at large follows this pattern. Econ Twitter, starting with Tyler Cowen, is full of these people. Thank you!