Loris Bennett (12023-11-06): > I beg to differ. I think you are confusing the precise definition of > something with the label used to refer to it. When the transistor was > invented, so was a new word to describe it. When this particular > concept of how to organise data on a computer, about which we are > talking, was invented, the existing analog term 'directory' was chosen > (and not, say, 'catalogue'). Because the term already existed, using it > to refer to something else is by definition metaphorical.
No, that is not what “metaphorical means”. Anyway, I am not interested in splitting hair about stylistic devices. -- Nicolas George
