Almost all speech is metaphorical.
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A metaphor elicits a response that is analogous to the response to the thing being described.
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We react to the word coffee in some ways that are similar to how we react to actual coffee (we smell and visualize similarly, and we engage in certain similar associations).
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The etymology of emotional words derives from actions, so they are all metaphors as well. Anger, for example, means what it feels like to want to strangle someone.
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We are bad at accurate recall, at representing things as they were. Therefore, human beings are bad describing reality.
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Journalists and scientific observers have to be taught how to report facts before interpreting them, and the entire scientific enterprise is an effort to describe reality accurately.
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Conversely, we are very good at evaluating communication for how it makes us feel, but not for what it means. In other words, people are good poets and bad reporters.
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language is magic and poetry is advanced wizardryhttps://twitter.com/auderdy/status/1236076171709657088 …
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