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Can Only Brun Go To China?; Op-Ed
Topic Started: Aug 20 2017, 01:30 PM (352 Views)
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Aug 28 2017, 06:57 PM
Personally, I am a fan of Orwell's rules for writing:

https://thoughtcapital.wordpress.com/2007/04/22/george-orwells-6-rules-for-writing/

And the New York Times : https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/opinion/tips-for-aspiring-op-ed-writers.html

In both cases; both Orwell and the Times dislike metaphors and cliches and I think that this article would have been stronger without the metaphor as I stated earlier. But what would I know about writing?
No. They don't dislike metaphors per se, they dislike dead metaphors. Fresh metaphors with vivid imagery --- Orwell like those.

And furthermore, I really liked this article. Your welcome to your views, though I think you find yourself alone.
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Rach, I agree that metaphors are often awful ways of getting your idea across. Which is why I recommend you think about your anti SC campagin and your narrative that the SC is like a monarchy. As a fan of Orwell you might be able to apply some of his lessons to your own work.
On phone, as I was for my last response but firstly; campaigning for an apolitical chancellery with higher standards is not anti Chancellery in any way. It is treating the Chancellery as an institution with the highest respect. Secondly and this is pedantic sorry, but you claim that me saying that the Chancellory is like a monarchy is a metaphor. This is incorrect, it is a simile :P
This is pedantic, but you don't follow the style guide you use to attack this article. I look forward to you learning from the style guide that you clearly value so highly and to higher quality articles from the Globe.
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I wasn't even attacking the article! I said I didn't like the metaphor! Everything else, especially the ideas in it I liked! It's possible for me to like the article without liking the metaphor in it :P
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Aug 28 2017, 08:04 PM
I wasn't even attacking the article! I said I didn't like the metaphor! Everything else, especially the ideas in it I liked! It's possible for me to like the article without liking the metaphor in it :P
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Good article, Kylia.

Terrific use of analogy, too -- Brun withdrawing from CAIN would absolutely have been a "Nixon in China" moment.
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Aug 28 2017, 08:31 PM
Good article, Kylia.

Terrific use of analogy, too -- Brun withdrawing from CAIN would absolutely have been a "Nixon in China" moment.
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The Rach-related comments are all so vintage Europeian in this thread :P
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