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photon_off on Oct 19, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: how many years have you "wasted" on failed...

Is a metaphor not a type of abstraction? At any rate, you're correct, I'm probably not giving people enough credit. I'd say that if you can avoid "X of Y"-isms, you're better off doing so.

petervandijck on Oct 20, 2010 [–]

I'd say the opposite: if you can explain something in terms of "x of y", you probably should. Read George Lakoff's stuff :)

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