My brain cannot go anywhere near the kinds of metaphoricity going on here. But ha! But ugh, now Paul Ricoeur will guilt me in my dreams.
Okay trying: 1. the command keys were given metaphorical names to describe what they do on a computer in a readily comprehensible way. 2. But we’re so used to these functions that they’ve become dead metaphors. 3. So used to them that the operations that gave their names to the computer processes are now a more unusual thing for many of us to do. 4. So the metaphor is being reversed by applying the commands to the processes. 5. Irony?
That course I took on metaphor in 2006, man I was so awful at it. I cannot express these kinds of things about language and signification very well at all. But I understand (in this case)!
