Thoughts on a simetaphor

[anivid]

Now I get a very mercantile feeling about this goldcoined laughter

 

[TheDustyZebra]

A lucky shopkeeper indeed, who has to ring a whole waterfall of gold coins on the counter! I wonder what (or whom) he's selling?

 

[Tywin]

Maybe it's a waterfall of those chocolate gold coins? Far more affordable.

 

[Boneman]

So is it a visual simetaphor? Or an aural one? By being (possibly) both, it's definitely a simulacrum simetaphore. A beer for the first person to put a question to a panel at a conference mentioning the word!!

 

[anivid]

So is it a visual simetaphor? Or an aural one? By being (possibly) both, it's definitely a simulacrum simetaphore. A beer for the first person to put a question to a panel at a conference mentioning the word!!

No problem - they'll just think they're stupids/ignorants, who needs more conferences
The more clever will think you meant semi-metaphor, and just stumbled over the word - and that's the problem with that word, which I take was meant to be a hybrid between simile and metaphore - could also refer to semi-metaphor, as you're sort taking something from the metaphore by trying to include too much.
With "too much" I'm also referring to the metonymy in the word "gold" - as we've seen.
See, try to explain that to the conference - and you'll see their eyes soon be rolling

No beer, thank you - may be you have some claret ??

 

[Ursa major]

"Cataract of gold coins" might read/sound better. The literal meaning is pretty well the same, but the word "cataract" is fairly well established as a workhorse word for use in simile.

Now the woman with the loose gold teeth has problems with her eyes?!

How she manages to laugh at all is beyond my understanding.



Oh, and HB: good luck with the neologism, simetaphor.

 

[The Judge]

There's a song in (I think) the musical City of Angels which has a line "cloudy as a cataract" and I puzzled for ages why anyone would use a waterfall for that image...

 

[Ursa major]

Weird....

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[Boneman]

No beer, thank you - may be you have some claret ??

No, but I've got a nice beaujolais... Let me know where you intend to use the word, and I'll be there - probably. Was in Poitiers last week, for a vicars and tarts party, believe it or not...

 

[anivid]

There's a song in (I think) the musical City of Angels which has a line "cloudy as a cataract" and I puzzled for ages why anyone would use a waterfall for that image...

Dear TJ you need not be puzzled anylonger - "cloudy as a cataract" probably is referring to the eye illness cataract which make the sight very cloudy
Most common in certain countries

 

[anivid]

No, but I've got a nice beaujolais... Let me know where you intend to use the word, and I'll be there - probably. Was in Poitiers last week, for a vicars and tarts party, believe it or not...

Beaujolais - now we're getting there

'Vicars & Tarts' party - we're getting around, aren't we ??
- but you need to come far more south than Poitiers for seeing me in action.
(action? - what am I talking about - I'm retired now )

 

[Boneman]

Beaujolais - now we're getting there

'Vicars & Tarts' party - we're getting around, aren't we ??
- but you need to come far more south than Poitiers for seeing me in action.
(action? - what am I talking about - I'm retired now )

Well, we have friends in Buzet sur Baise, might get to them in August... usually end us pi**ed as f*rts, which should count as a simetaphor, keeping it on thread...

 

[anivid]

Well, we have friends in Buzet sur Baise, might get to them in August... usually end us pi**ed as f*rts, which should count as a simetaphor, keeping it on thread...

Yep - that's close - then you just have to teletransport yourself 250 miles to reach the target

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Maybe it's a waterfall of those chocolate gold coins? Far more affordable.

Now, see, that conjures up an image of a smooth, velvety voice -- what David Weber calls a "furry contralto", I would imagine. Well, to me, at least. Mind you, I'm also busy being distracted by the thought of that much chocolate....