Comment Bad Metaphor (Score 1) 481
From the article:
Priest's invention would make those old phone lines faster than anything on the market, decimating the communications speed limit.
What a terrible mixing of metaphors! Save for the obvious contextual cues in the first part of the sentence, I would read the phrase as "reducing the communications bandwidth by some fraction".
A better choice would be "obliterating" or some similar word without a numerical connotation .
- one of the five English nit-picking /.'ers
Priest's invention would make those old phone lines faster than anything on the market, decimating the communications speed limit.
What a terrible mixing of metaphors! Save for the obvious contextual cues in the first part of the sentence, I would read the phrase as "reducing the communications bandwidth by some fraction".
A better choice would be "obliterating" or some similar word without a numerical connotation
- one of the five English nit-picking
