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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Resurrecting Dead Metaphors
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 07:30:41 EDT
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Summary: 

Fowler's article on Mixed Metaphors mentions a number of instances in which
the ghosts of dead metaphors rise to combat.  One of my favorites was
"It is a virgin field pregnant with possibilities."  Or "on the sands of
time we see the footprints of an unknown hand."

For some time I've been bothered about the proper way to end a rhetorical
question.  A question mark somehow seems inappropriate.  (Maybe a question
mark inside quotes would do....)

--Lee Gold