On 2023-11-06, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > 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. >
You're not interested in splitting hairs? C'est l'hôpital qui se fout de la charité !
