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<blockquote data-quote="Asisreo" data-source="post: 8020422" data-attributes="member: 7019027"><p>They're filler words like "um" or "like," without abruptly breaking the flow of conversation and making it look like you're just trying to capture your moment. </p><p></p><p>They sometimes are prevalent in someone's life that they pick them up in speech without think, then they'll apply it to their texts. </p><p></p><p></p><p>As for metaphors(usually similes), I use them alot because I understand new things based on previously known things or easier to follow things easier. Raising something to a power is like multiplying it a number of times equal to those many times. I know how to multiply 3 by itself 3 times, so 3^3 is easy to understand and I get a basic understanding. There's some nuances, though. It doesn't make sense to multiply 3 by itself 2.5 times yet 3^2.5 exists. </p><p></p><p>So a metaphor isn't meant to substitute the required knowledge being given, it's to create a basis for the new information. In the case of discussion, a basis to be shared. "Asking a person to dodge a bullet is like asking a monkey to fly." The basis to be shared is that asking something to do an impossible action is ridiculous. We know asking a monkey to fly is ridiculous but we're establishing that it's a similar premise. It doesn't really work for this metaphor for the reason that there's no real reason to establish a similarity (we probably also know how ridiculous it is to ask a person to dodge a bullet) and the I don't have a point to establishing the basis. I'm saying it's ridiculous but not saying why, and saying it's ridiculous in more words, too. </p><p></p><p>Which is why metaphors must be used carefully in a discussion. The connection needs to be both clear and relevant and needs to have an actual point, otherwise people will be stuck on the fact that "nobody is asking a monkey to fly in the first place."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Asisreo, post: 8020422, member: 7019027"] They're filler words like "um" or "like," without abruptly breaking the flow of conversation and making it look like you're just trying to capture your moment. They sometimes are prevalent in someone's life that they pick them up in speech without think, then they'll apply it to their texts. As for metaphors(usually similes), I use them alot because I understand new things based on previously known things or easier to follow things easier. Raising something to a power is like multiplying it a number of times equal to those many times. I know how to multiply 3 by itself 3 times, so 3^3 is easy to understand and I get a basic understanding. There's some nuances, though. It doesn't make sense to multiply 3 by itself 2.5 times yet 3^2.5 exists. So a metaphor isn't meant to substitute the required knowledge being given, it's to create a basis for the new information. In the case of discussion, a basis to be shared. "Asking a person to dodge a bullet is like asking a monkey to fly." The basis to be shared is that asking something to do an impossible action is ridiculous. We know asking a monkey to fly is ridiculous but we're establishing that it's a similar premise. It doesn't really work for this metaphor for the reason that there's no real reason to establish a similarity (we probably also know how ridiculous it is to ask a person to dodge a bullet) and the I don't have a point to establishing the basis. I'm saying it's ridiculous but not saying why, and saying it's ridiculous in more words, too. Which is why metaphors must be used carefully in a discussion. The connection needs to be both clear and relevant and needs to have an actual point, otherwise people will be stuck on the fact that "nobody is asking a monkey to fly in the first place." [/QUOTE]
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