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Can Only Brun Go To China?; Op-Ed
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Topic Started: Aug 20 2017, 01:30 PM (351 Views)
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JayDee
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Aug 28 2017, 07:46 PM
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hyanygo
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Aug 28 2017, 07:59 PM
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- Aug 28 2017, 06:57 PM
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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PhDre
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Aug 28 2017, 08:00 PM
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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 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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Rach
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Aug 28 2017, 08:04 PM
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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
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hyanygo
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Aug 28 2017, 08:13 PM
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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 well i don't like your metaphor
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Skizzy Grey
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Aug 28 2017, 08:31 PM
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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, 10:33 PM
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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. most definitely
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Aug 29 2017, 01:48 AM
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The Rach-related comments are all so vintage Europeian in this thread
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Kylia Quilor
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Aug 29 2017, 02:22 AM
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The Rach-related comments are all so vintage Europeian in this thread 
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