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Analogies are lazy rhetorical devices. Different things are, unsurprisingly, different. Saying "X is like Y" does nothing but invite the conversation to take a
by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Analogies are lazy rhetorical devices. Different things are, unsurprisingly, different. Saying "X is like Y" does nothing but invite the conversation to take a turn into identifying all the differences between X and Y.
Just defend the original subject on its own merits.
- kdidiwkdkw 2mo ago[flagged]
- Barbing 2mo agoThis comment is like an opinion someone had and then shared digitally with the world. - I didn't mind the Thomas Kinkade reference, but you do have me thinking about to what extent analogies are lazy. Do you abstain from using them completely, or keep them rare?
- internet2000 2mo agoI didn't mean it as an analogy. I meant it as it visually looks the same to me. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250326-why-the-quaint-paintings-of-thomas-kinkade-divided-the-us https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250326-why-the-quaint-... Hyper-detailed but somehow off, intense colors, not entirely realistic as a complete scene but a combination of realistic scenes.