Editing Talk:762: Analogies

Surprised he said synecdoche instead of metonymy, which to me seems slightly more appropriate. What a terrible mess such devices are. I'm content memorizing 114 chemical symbols and the names and capitals of 196 generally recognized sovereign nations, but not the ~200 items on this  {{w|Figure_of_speech#Categories_of_figures_of_speech|list of tropes and schemes}}. --[[User:Quicksilver|Quicksilver]] ([[User talk:Quicksilver|talk]]) 01:50, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 Unfortunately, nobody was any the wiser after hearing this. 
The  analogy from Einstein would have been well understood as cats whiskers were familiar radio sets in before valves became cheap enough for anyone to afford a modern radio. They were difficult to tune and quickly lost contact. It is a very good analogy.

[[User:Weatherlawyer| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 22:07, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

:It seems highly likely that the opening lines of whether sandwich was a metaphor had to do with threesomes - i.e. a "sandwich" of a woman between two men. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.67|108.162.216.67]] 07:57, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
::Agreed --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:30, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Ahh, meta! [[User:SilverMagpie|SilverMagpie]] ([[User talk:SilverMagpie|talk]]) 22:20, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Neither of the examples of synecdoche is very good. When I use the web I am literally using the internet, since the web is a layer residing on top of the internet. A person who thinks of the web as just an interface to the internet, and the internet as the more important layer, might say they were using the internet without having any synecdochal or metonymic intent. And a band-aid is not part of a bandage, it's an example of a bandage. Wikipedia has lots of better examples.


I think synecdoche should be the official linguistic phenomenon of Schenectady, New York. Two words I may never learn to pronounce correctly as a native Californian... --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.141.58|172.68.141.58]] 15:25, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Couldn't sandwich also refer to the "sandwich" from the series How I met your mother: https://how-i-met-your-mother.fandom.com/wiki/Eating_a_Sandwich