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IncreasePostsyesterday at 5:05 PM3 repliesview on HN

A sloppy mixed metaphor?


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card_zeroyesterday at 5:17 PM

I'm learning to like 'em more, along with every other human idiosyncracy. Besides, it makes a kind of sense, the idea of some resonance occuring in one's gusset. Timber timbre. Flangent thrumming.

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tasty_freezeyesterday at 6:46 PM

I thought it was more creative than sloppy. Don't forget that many ordinary phrases were once jarring mixed imagery. To "wear your heart on your sleeve" was coined by Shakespeare; we still use it because it "stuck" due to its unorthodox phrasing.

If you like your prose to be anodyne, then maybe you like what AI produces.

co_king_5yesterday at 5:53 PM

I thought it was quite an effective metaphor!