When we improve on our technology, we create, group, or form new ways of language and speaking. Most of the time, we are shortening or condensing our language to make it much easier to speak. We make acronyms in our normal everyday conversation as quick remarks. We take the power and emotion from the original phrase and make it meaningless. We take the positives, like LOL, or the negatives, like WTF, and make them lack any connotation, so that they are just there to fill up space in our text box. Our language has turned from what used to be an emotional conversation from person to person, to just witty banter that is because of technology. This is really neither good nor bad for our culture. While we do lose the power and emotion from our language
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By supplying the reader with information about connotation in our language and Aristotle’s concept of “bring-before-the-eyes” in regards to metaphors, Pozovhaez builds her claim that the use of metaphors, no matter how they are perceived to be, give an emotional change. Pozovhaez wishes to convey to the readers the importance of the emotions and understanding that can be behind the linguistic style in order to add to the already preconceived notion that metaphors just twist truth and logic around. The author’s audience likely consists of those interested in Greek philosophy or history, as is evident through her references to Aristotle and Diomedes; she addresses readers with a tone that is sincere and …show more content…
We compare words and phrases to others that do not belong because we like to emphasize our thoughts and emotion. The metaphor transfers what we say to almost something completely different to add more color or style to our sentence (Povozhaev 2). The metaphor is a linguistic style that we use to add or fill up a sentence. By transferring something to another, it adds some beauty or emphasis to what we have already felt. Just like textspeak, we use acronyms and phrases to emphasize what we are trying to say. We use these styles to appear to have emotion, when they are just filling up the textbox. The use of acronyms like "OMG" are, like metaphors, there to just add something to make the sentence look better, when there is no meaning behind
By supplying the reader with information about connotation in our language and Aristotle’s concept of “bring-before-the-eyes” in regards to metaphors, Pozovhaez builds her claim that the use of metaphors, no matter how they are perceived to be, give an emotional change. Pozovhaez wishes to convey to the readers the importance of the emotions and understanding that can be behind the linguistic style in order to add to the already preconceived notion that metaphors just twist truth and logic around. The author’s audience likely consists of those interested in Greek philosophy or history, as is evident through her references to Aristotle and Diomedes; she addresses readers with a tone that is sincere and …show more content…
We compare words and phrases to others that do not belong because we like to emphasize our thoughts and emotion. The metaphor transfers what we say to almost something completely different to add more color or style to our sentence (Povozhaev 2). The metaphor is a linguistic style that we use to add or fill up a sentence. By transferring something to another, it adds some beauty or emphasis to what we have already felt. Just like textspeak, we use acronyms and phrases to emphasize what we are trying to say. We use these styles to appear to have emotion, when they are just filling up the textbox. The use of acronyms like "OMG" are, like metaphors, there to just add something to make the sentence look better, when there is no meaning behind