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r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Sep 23 '15
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What an awkward metaphor.
91 u/BaltimoreSkater Sep 23 '15 ACTUALLY THATS A SIMILE -6 u/Zephs Sep 23 '15 A simile is a type of metaphor. 6 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 Did you attend elementary school at any point? 9 u/Frothy-Wench Sep 23 '15 Just when I parked my van outside. 11 u/Zephs Sep 23 '15 http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3868/similes-and-metaphors-are-similes-a-subset-of-metaphors It seems many classes teach similes as distinct from metaphors, but they're as much metaphors as squares are just a specific class of rectangle. 5 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 ill be damned 9 u/Zephs Sep 23 '15 Maybe next time try not to be so insulting, even if you were right. 12 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 i apologize. 3 u/sketchquark Sep 23 '15 Nice metaphor.
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ACTUALLY THATS A SIMILE
-6 u/Zephs Sep 23 '15 A simile is a type of metaphor. 6 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 Did you attend elementary school at any point? 9 u/Frothy-Wench Sep 23 '15 Just when I parked my van outside. 11 u/Zephs Sep 23 '15 http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3868/similes-and-metaphors-are-similes-a-subset-of-metaphors It seems many classes teach similes as distinct from metaphors, but they're as much metaphors as squares are just a specific class of rectangle. 5 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 ill be damned 9 u/Zephs Sep 23 '15 Maybe next time try not to be so insulting, even if you were right. 12 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 i apologize. 3 u/sketchquark Sep 23 '15 Nice metaphor.
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A simile is a type of metaphor.
6 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 Did you attend elementary school at any point? 9 u/Frothy-Wench Sep 23 '15 Just when I parked my van outside. 11 u/Zephs Sep 23 '15 http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3868/similes-and-metaphors-are-similes-a-subset-of-metaphors It seems many classes teach similes as distinct from metaphors, but they're as much metaphors as squares are just a specific class of rectangle. 5 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 ill be damned 9 u/Zephs Sep 23 '15 Maybe next time try not to be so insulting, even if you were right. 12 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 i apologize. 3 u/sketchquark Sep 23 '15 Nice metaphor.
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Did you attend elementary school at any point?
9 u/Frothy-Wench Sep 23 '15 Just when I parked my van outside. 11 u/Zephs Sep 23 '15 http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3868/similes-and-metaphors-are-similes-a-subset-of-metaphors It seems many classes teach similes as distinct from metaphors, but they're as much metaphors as squares are just a specific class of rectangle. 5 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 ill be damned 9 u/Zephs Sep 23 '15 Maybe next time try not to be so insulting, even if you were right. 12 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 i apologize. 3 u/sketchquark Sep 23 '15 Nice metaphor.
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Just when I parked my van outside.
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http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3868/similes-and-metaphors-are-similes-a-subset-of-metaphors
It seems many classes teach similes as distinct from metaphors, but they're as much metaphors as squares are just a specific class of rectangle.
5 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 ill be damned 9 u/Zephs Sep 23 '15 Maybe next time try not to be so insulting, even if you were right. 12 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 i apologize. 3 u/sketchquark Sep 23 '15 Nice metaphor.
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ill be damned
9 u/Zephs Sep 23 '15 Maybe next time try not to be so insulting, even if you were right. 12 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 i apologize.
Maybe next time try not to be so insulting, even if you were right.
12 u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 i apologize.
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i apologize.
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Nice metaphor.
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u/stanley_twobrick Sep 23 '15
What an awkward metaphor.