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Because that is what a book is - a physical item. You’re using the wrong word. Literature is to music as a book is to vinyl or CD.
by manigandham 4y ago
Because that is what a book is - a physical item. You’re using the wrong word.
Literature is to music as a book is to vinyl or CD.
- karlerss 4y agoAlternatively, if you know the type of literature, you can call it a novel or a poetry collection.
- ben0x539 4y agoEh, "book" is widely used as the unit of literature. If someone says "I wrote a book!", you don't assume that they created exactly one physical item by writing on a lot of pages and tying them together or anything.
- rat9988 4y ago> Eh, "book" is widely used as the unit of literature. This is orthogonal. A glass can either be the physical item, or used as unit of literature. In the current context, nobody cares about the unit.
- gpderetta 4y agosure, often the medium is confused for the content. Watching a film usually doesn't involve any physicals film.
- manigandham 4y agoSo? That's the same as saying "I made a record". They probably didn't just make one. But it doesn't change the underlying definitions or the misuse of comparing them incorrectly.
- mdp2021 4y ago> a physical item Not really. More like, "a container". It goes in the direction of "physical" (as opposed to the content), but it is not necessarily physical. For example, a file already is a "book".
- grkvlt 4y agosee also synechdoche [0] as a figure of speech, or "container for the thing contained" as james thurber's english teacher explained... 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche