Tag: metaphor
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GPS Dots & Status Updates
As a native(-level†) English speaker (re-†)learning Chinese, one of the hardest things to wrap my brain around is how time is conveyed with the latter, since it’s quite conceptually different from the language of the former. I still don’t have a super firm grasp on all the nuances, but I want to share a mental… Read more
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Banal Magic: Engineering Engines
I have mentioned that I was turning my creativity car into a creativity train, thereby giving myself way too much leeway to mix metaphors. XD So, of course, why stop there? =P I’m upgrading said car-cum-train into a jet. With two engines. I’ve already introduced the concept of one of these engines for boosting my… Read more
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Banal Magic: Changing Gears
This post is thus titled, not because you, dear reader, will see anything here change, but because I am making a change in my own mental gears. (Think of these as internal gears, hidden away in some kind of casing, not the kinds of gears that are out in the open.) You see, my earlier… Read more
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Banal Magic: Tacking Train Tracks
I’m a big fan of metaphors. They help me conceptualise, well, just about everything. They also feel rather nerdy to me (I’m not sure why), and that just tickles me even more. ‘^^ If I can make an extended metaphor, so much the better, but I’ve learnt that even an illogically mixed metaphor can be… Read more
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Banal Magic: Creating a Creativity Car
When I’m in a fallow period of my life — that is, when I’m not productive (in the literal, semantic sense of the word: when I’m not producing) — for a prolonged period, either deliberately or accidentally —, I don’t need too many tools to get by (read: to fool other people into thinking I… Read more
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Springboard
If you’ve been following along so far, this blog’s focus this entire month has been, well, itself. (We — the royal “we”, ahem — are very meta here at the Stacks. XD) Basically, it’s been a serialized introduction to what this whole blog is about and what it entails. Now here we are, coming to… Read more
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Google-y Eyes
In my previous post, I told you what I was promising. In this post, I will tell you what I’m very much not promising. I do not promise not to try to monetise this blog — probably in multiple ways. But I do promise — in the midst of my non-promise XD — to do… Read more