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The imminent danger of metaphor p3
As a writer you need command of the language. Not to make of it something beautiful [additional problem]. To persuade. To enchant. To create metaphors. To listen and be able to pick up the metaphors that could work in most places.
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The imminent danger of metaphor p2
It might be and it might not be that reality is shaped by language (nonetheless the gravity works in all of them, despite the name). Nor Sapir or Whorf were able to prove it. Let's imagine for a moment that what happens in English does in Spanish as well. The use of the generic engineer, doctor, physician, lawyer and driver is deceitful, sly and manipulative to the point we rarely imagine a woman upon hearing these words.
