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Kincaid microfiction "Goodbye"
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on May 02, 2020, 11:44:54 PM ---I've never gotten that saying. Shouldn't we compare apples to oranges? They're both fruit that are common, made into juice, grow on a tree, are often fed to children as a snack, spherical, and probably other things too.
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I'll answer when you tell me which of the two make better orange juice.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on May 02, 2020, 11:44:54 PM ---I've never gotten that saying. Shouldn't we compare apples to oranges? They're both fruit that are common, made into juice, grow on a tree, are often fed to children as a snack, spherical, and probably other things too.
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But -- as fruit go -- they are quite different, particularly when you ask, "what makes a good <X>" where X is either apple or orange. The idea isn't how wholly-dissimilar they are, but whether you can judge an orange by the qualities of good-appleness, or an apple by the qualities of good-orangeness.
Do you want your orange to be rather crispy and hard? Do you hope your apple has a tart/tangy bite alongside the sweetness? Do you look forward to a nice slice of Orange Pie? Etc.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on May 02, 2020, 11:44:54 PM ---I've never gotten that saying. Shouldn't we compare apples to oranges? They're both fruit that are common, made into juice, grow on a tree, are often fed to children as a snack, spherical, and probably other things too.
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However you know when you see them, taste them, smell them, they are quite different. Now
apples to Asian pears might be a little more difficult to tell apart for some.
Bad Alias:
I much prefer the foreign idioms in Wikipedia article Morris linked to such as "the grandmother and the machine gun." Those are two things that really should be beyond comparison. Further I agree with the scientific studies in the article that apples and oranges are highly comparable.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on May 04, 2020, 02:57:12 AM ---I much prefer the foreign idioms in Wikipedia article Morris linked to such as "the grandmother and the machine gun." Those are two things that really should be beyond comparison. Further I agree with the scientific studies in the article that apples and oranges are highly comparable.
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Comparable, but not the same.. It may be a small matter of a gene or two, but that is what sets us apart as much as it makes us one..
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