Jim Stewart on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:18:20 -0700
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
Jim on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:50:47 -0700
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:

I need one now about as
bad as I need a senior drill sargent as a roommate...

And some people will read that sentence and say "Your point???"

Google figure of speech - analogy

Ah, the old "finger bone of speech" routine. Like I said, some
people will read that sentence, and not see the problem. Maybe
because they are married to a senior drill sergeant. Or are a drill
sergeant themselves. Or don't find it a problem.

So now I'm wondering what your point is. Figures
of speech are a totally acceptable form of English
communications.

Your statement "finger bone of speech" is, in itself
some sort of metaphor or figure of speech (I'm too

Albert the Alligator used it a lot in Pogo. Back in the dark
ages.

Oh, never mind.
lazy to look it up). Were you making it as some
sort of sideways criticism of the less than straight-
forward English?
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pyotr filipivich
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