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by peacefulhat 1602 days ago
Analogies and idioms are heavily leaned on when you’ve substituted actual expertise for rhetoric.
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That can be useful; when explaining something complex to someone lacking the same actual expertise, an analogy they can understand without it is potentially helpful.
I was going to correct this but I don’t want to disturb the awesome metajoke in its natural habitat.