Comment on How The Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple

• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unless youre trying to tell me everything in the bible is literal?

  Obviously not. But that’s not a metaphor. That’s just using the wrong word.

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  • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh, you consulted the author?

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, but like, a metaphor is when there’s some second meaning. Why would you call a mushroom a fruit? Especially since none of this was in English anyway and so there’s no way of knowing if any secondary meanings of the word would have also made any sense poetically.

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      • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’re a mushroom.

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