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It'd be one thing if the flowery writing were actually good, but the images don't even make sense. as prosecutor Danielle Sassoon went through a brutal lin
by mpalmer 3y ago
It'd be one thing if the flowery writing were actually good, but the images don't even make sense.
as prosecutor Danielle Sassoon went through a brutal line of questioning like a hot buzzsaw through a butter cow
Shouldn't the brutal line of questioning be the buzzsaw, and SBF the butter?
- hotnfresh 3y agoOh damn, that's Lyttle Lytton material right there. So bad it comes back around and becomes good.
- jihadjihad 3y agoIt's ambiguous, but I read it as "the prosecutor effortlessly heaped a brutal line of questioning upon the defendant," or something to that effect.
- bagels 3y agoTypically bandsaws are used to process cows anyways, so it makes even less sense.
- harambae 3y agoI think it's this type of butter cow being referenced https://www.iowastatefair.org/about/butter-cow https://www.iowastatefair.org/about/butter-cow
- gizajob 3y agoIt’s strange how the writer seems to excuse themselves the cliche of saying “like a hot knife through butter” by jazzing it up. “A hot buzzsaw through a butter cow” would just make a huge mess everywhere, not get to the heart of the issue quickly. Mixing metaphors isn’t good writing, and getting them wrong makes for very poor style, but the writer (even though I enjoyed this article) seems to consider themselves a great stylist despite not thinking about the implications of this metaphoric language.
- fshbbdssbbgdd 3y agoSurely there’s a lot of competition and rush to publish news on this trial. Changing around the metaphors might not be the highest priority of any editors.
- SilasX 3y agoSo don’t change it around. Just reject the metaphor usage entirely. “If you don’t understand metaphors, please, just don’t use them.”