Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!gargoyle!mark From: mark@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Mark Turner) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Metaphor Message-ID: <241@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 16:40:19 EST Article-I.D.: gargoyle.241 Posted: Sun Dec 2 16:40:19 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 06:43:09 EST Reply-To: mark@gargoyle.UUCP ( Turner) Followup-To: ...ihnp4!gargoyle!puck!mark Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science Lines: 16 Summary: Keywords:linguistics, semantics, metaphor I would like to see a newsgroup for net.metaphor. I am collecting metaphors and analogies of the following forms: x is y (truth is beauty, beauty is but a flower, truth is the safest lie) x is like y (a metaphysician is like a blind man in a dark room) x is the y of z (the body is the socket of the soul) and kinship metaphors, like "Death is the mother of beauty". I would appreciate your sending any examples you have found to ...ihnp4!gargoyle!puck!mark or ...lbl-csam!oddjob!gargoyle!puck!mark