Comment by dummydummy1234 4 months ago Can a country commit a crime? 6 comments dummydummy1234 Reply marcosdumay 4 months ago No, it's the government that commits it.People use the country = government metaphor as a shortcut for communication, but this one takes it further than usual. blharr 4 months ago > country = government metaphorThis will probably never be particularly useful, but this figure of speech is a "synecdoche" (a "metonymy" instead of a "metaphor") brookst 4 months ago As long as we’re being pedantic, synecdoche means referring to part as the whole (nice wheels = car, nice threads = clothes).Saying the US did something when referring to the government is metonymy, but not synecdoche. 1 reply → largbae 4 months ago Extradition by tectonic subduction
marcosdumay 4 months ago No, it's the government that commits it.People use the country = government metaphor as a shortcut for communication, but this one takes it further than usual. blharr 4 months ago > country = government metaphorThis will probably never be particularly useful, but this figure of speech is a "synecdoche" (a "metonymy" instead of a "metaphor") brookst 4 months ago As long as we’re being pedantic, synecdoche means referring to part as the whole (nice wheels = car, nice threads = clothes).Saying the US did something when referring to the government is metonymy, but not synecdoche. 1 reply →
blharr 4 months ago > country = government metaphorThis will probably never be particularly useful, but this figure of speech is a "synecdoche" (a "metonymy" instead of a "metaphor") brookst 4 months ago As long as we’re being pedantic, synecdoche means referring to part as the whole (nice wheels = car, nice threads = clothes).Saying the US did something when referring to the government is metonymy, but not synecdoche. 1 reply →
brookst 4 months ago As long as we’re being pedantic, synecdoche means referring to part as the whole (nice wheels = car, nice threads = clothes).Saying the US did something when referring to the government is metonymy, but not synecdoche. 1 reply →
No, it's the government that commits it.
People use the country = government metaphor as a shortcut for communication, but this one takes it further than usual.
> country = government metaphor
This will probably never be particularly useful, but this figure of speech is a "synecdoche" (a "metonymy" instead of a "metaphor")
As long as we’re being pedantic, synecdoche means referring to part as the whole (nice wheels = car, nice threads = clothes).
Saying the US did something when referring to the government is metonymy, but not synecdoche.
1 reply →
Extradition by tectonic subduction