m-richthoven

Are you ESL?

It’s not an example, it is an analogy.

This is the difference: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-analogy

https://phdessay.com/difference-figurative-literal-analogy/

The site is slowly replacing all users with ChatGPT instances that don’t comprehend grammar or tone.

The point is not the specific incident. He could have used any incident to illustrate the point that sometimes experts make mistakes

I genuinely hate this type of stupid comment which nitpicks the analogy as opposed to discussing what it’s trying to explain.

“Yeah that data is getting stuck in there like a fly on a glue trap”

actually data isn’t a literal fly and thus it cannot become stuck in a metaphorical glue trap!!!”

Are you … that dumb?

“Experts make mistakes too”

But did you consider that your analogy (which is there to ONLY illustrate the point) doesn’t work in this random scenario that’s unrelated to your point?

“Guys I think libraries are good” wow OP did you consider that libraries are only referred to as libraries in English and we don’t have any (in my country that has libraries but calls them a non English word) because of that

How do people think these comments are anything other than purely frustrating attempts to derail a point?

The purpose of his analogy is to simply illustrate the point he is making. Why are you nitpicking an analogy? It’s not helpful to me as a reader or to any argument you could make.