Reply-To: Chris Bogart <cbogart@QUETZAL.COM>
Date: Wed Dec 13 03:18:30 1995
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From: Chris Bogart <cbogart@QUETZAL.COM>
Subject:      Re: metaphor translation
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To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
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>>I tried to find a cmavo or a gismu for "metaphor" but came up empty. Is
>>there a way I can say the concrete meaning of my metaphor flagging it as a
>>metaphor so as to induce the "aha!"? Is there a way to distinguish which
>>type of metaphor is being used?

{pe'a}, at your service (you should have looked under "figurative"!)
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