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No, it's the government that commits it. People use the country = government metaphor as a shortcut for communication, but this one takes it further than usual
by marcosdumay 1y ago
No, it's the government that commits it.
People use the country = government metaphor as a shortcut for communication, but this one takes it further than usual.
- blharr 1y ago> country = government metaphor This will probably never be particularly useful, but this figure of speech is a "synecdoche" (a "metonymy" instead of a "metaphor")
- brookst 1y agoAs long as we’re being pedantic, synecdoche means referring to part as the whole (nice wheels = car, nice threads = clothes). Saying the US did something when referring to the government is metonymy, but not synecdoche.
- StackRanker3000 1y agoA synecdoche can either be when you use a part to represent the whole, or conversely use the whole to represent a part I think it’s valid to consider the US government a part of the US. Thus, referring to the US government when saying that the US did something is a synecdoche