Re: Futurese: Colours

Javier wrote:
>
> >>I used "eyes" the same I used "ears".
> >>Unless you have some disfunction in them, they can
> >>perceive all colour differences and all sounds.
> >>But anything about language is a matter of neuronal
> >>processes, so I think it would have been clear that
> >>when I talked about "eyes" and "ears" I was talking
> >>about our _mental_ "eyes" and "ears".
> >
> >"Mental ears" and "mental eyes" are not things I typically speak about.
> >Infact, I can't on the top of my head think of any earlier instance I've
> >heard anyone else speak about such the way you did either. In short, I
>took
> >an (to me) unknown idiom literally.
>
>I wasn't using an idiom but rather a metaphor. Do you
>really have such a difficulty understanding a metaphor?
Yes, I did completely fail to understand this particular metaphor. Given
that I've never (to my knowledge) encountered it before, and that a literal
interpretation made perfect sense (despite making the statement factually
false), I don't think it's particularly odd either.

That said, I have no reason to believe that I'm _generally_
worse-than-average at detecting metaphors.

                                                             Andreas



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