Oh, the wonders of #birdsong and backend code—because if there's one thing programmers need, it's more #metaphors about how their #code is like a #symphony of feathered creatures. 
Spoiler: The "magic" is just hoping your code doesn't crash. 
https://digitalseams.com/blog/what-birdsong-and-backends-can-teach-us-about-magic #programming #humor #tech #woes #HackerNews #ngated
I read #GeorgeSaunders' collection of short stories, Liberation Day (Bloomsbury), in 2023. I recall vividly Love Letter, in which a grandfather writes a letter to his grandson during a time set in the future, but eerily familiar. I heard #DavidSedaris read the story on #TheNewYorker Fiction podcast yesterday. Now I know why it was so "eerily familiar"! 
#books #shortstories #metaphors #warnings
Link to New Yorker podcast episode: https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/david-sedaris-reads-george-saunders
#Design #Guidelines
Icons for “save” · Is the floppy disk metaphor still appropriate today? https://ilo.im/1655vm
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#Save #Icons #Metaphors #FloppyDisk #Demography #UserResearch #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign
Her mood changed like the weather
Ever heard this phrase and wondered why weather metaphors are so powerful?
From "a stormy relationship" to "a sunny disposition," weather metaphors paint emotions and situations vividly.
Explore how we use the skies to describe our lives → https://idiomandmetaphor.com/
#Metaphors #EnglishLanguage #FigurativeSpeech #WeatherWords #LanguageLearning
Metaphorically Speaking: A Dictionary of 3,800 Picturesque Idiomatic Expressions (1990) by N. E. Renton
There are books on antonyms, synonyms, and rhyming words, but this is the first paperback work on metaphors, the idiomatic words and phrases used to create images for the purposes of comparison, clarification, or whimsy. Contains three separate, self-contained listings: a dictionary, a thematic section, and a thesaurus.
My poem "Planting Marigolds"
in memory of my mom, who first taught me about plants.
Poem text link: https://allpoetry.com/poem/17239020-Planting-Marigolds-by-Robert-J.-Tiess
Re-#introduction to everyone new and old on the fediverse: I'm a professor for digital forensic linguistics at Ruhr-Uni Bochum. I work on social media data using corpus and computational methods. 
Current projects deal with #emojis, #disinformation, linguistic #variability and common ground, and #metaphors. 
I will fav all your cat photos!
#linguistics #nlproc #socialMedia #rub
