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Kincaid microfiction "Goodbye"
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 04, 2020, 05:17:40 PM --- Comparable, but not the same.. It may be a small matter of a gene or two on the strand of lifel, but that is what sets us apart as much as it makes us one..
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The point of the saying is that they aren't comparable. And that's why I've never gotten the saying. Apples and oranges are highly comparable. Grandmothers and machine guns are, hopefully, not very comparable.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on May 04, 2020, 11:38:31 PM ---The point of the saying is that they aren't comparable. And that's why I've never gotten the saying. Apples and oranges are highly comparable. Grandmothers and machine guns are, hopefully, not very comparable.
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--- Quote from: Wikipedia ---The idiom may also be used to indicate that a false analogy has been made between two items, such as where an apple is faulted for not being a good orange.
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This is the use you will see most, particularly in online forums. Thus me posting
--- Quote ---I'll answer when you tell me which of the two make better orange juice.
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Bad Alias:
I'm not sure I've ever actually use it that way. When I see it, it's usually pretty clearly "those two things aren't anything alike." There are a lot of common sayings and words that I see used improperly more often than properly. Ever sense Jim pointed out decimates meaning and misuse, I haven't stopped seeing people misuse it.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on May 04, 2020, 11:38:31 PM ---The point of the saying is that they aren't comparable. And that's why I've never gotten the saying. Apples and oranges are highly comparable. Grandmothers and machine guns are, hopefully, not very comparable.
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Actually it isn't, that is the whole point, yes, you can compare them as fruit, there are a lot of things apples and oranges have in common, but at the same time they are not the same. Where as grandmothers and machine guns have nothing in common. So a vanilla human sometimes hearing his mother's voice has a lot in common with a wizard hearing his, they are not the same.
Arjan:
In both cases I would err on the safe side and sacrifice a goat to the spirit of my dead mother. You never know.
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