Re:Metaphors in Man Pages
by centimeter on Friday May 08, 2020 @04:57PM
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Calling a lot of these "metaphors" is really stretching it - many of them are just homonyms with some distant shared etymology that may or may not have been metaphorical like 500 years ago.
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Re:Metaphors in Man Pages
by smogcutter on Friday May 08, 2020 @06:46PM
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Fwiw the word you’re looking for is synonym. Homonyms have the same pronunciation but different meanings.