I can't properly check the URL on mobile, but here's a link that works for me:
I agree - but parallels can be a quick and effective way to communicate information where the specifics aren't important, even if they have to be consciously discarded for someone diving further into the detail.
I won't argue the point further than this message, and I appreciate the details you've provided, but the point of analogies is drawing parallels to quickly aid understanding at a surface level.
Nothing analogous to finding a needle in a haystack actually involves rooting through dry grass for a sliver of metal, but the analogy still stands.
I like your comment for the most part, but:
obviously comes from a mishearing by someone who didn't read books
This is assumptive and prescriptive. The link I sent demonstrates that it's been used extensively and for a long time by people who not only read books, but write books. I'm on board that "set foot" is the better phrase and likely to be the earlier one, but trying to dictate which is correct is - respectfully - a fool's errand.
Sure, but OP's image says:
hell, pollen isn't analogous to sperm,
Pollen kind of is analogous to semen in a very broad sense, though, in as much as the pollen grain produces (rather than carries) sperm and delivers it to the ovule, right? It's not the same when examined closely, but that's the point of analogies. Grainy semen.
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Don't be absurd. Most French cafés don't serve grapes.
I've said it ~~once~~ zero times and I'll say it again. Far-future hypothetical space aliens should RTFM.
For sure, but it doesn't actually matter whether it's abstract from the outset or has become abstract through technological advance so long as it's unique and understood. Someone who's never seen a floppy disk will still learn it quickly, because it's distinctive.
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