It seems from various comments I’ve had that not all my
readers are familiar with such things as metonymy, synecdoche, irony and metaphor.
In particular, that when writing of pampered dogs not getting their accustomed
Rub-a-Dubs I might be trying gently to draw attention to the fact that there
are human infants in Greece who are not getting the milk they need to survive.
Forgive me for not using a hammer to drive the point home.
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I have not forgotten that I have been asked to write about how
fluorescent lights work, the
word ‘Rebarbative’, BBC English, Fairies at the bottom of the garden, Great
expectations, Earthquake-proof houses, the near-impossibility of getting Greeks
to make the English ‘J’ sound, the difference between a Lama and a Llama, and
the two meanings of ‘Quite’. All in due course.
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