Comments on: Mixing Metaphors on American Idol http://belletra.com/editor-at-large/mixing-metaphors-on-american-idol/ English Translation from German, Spanish and Catalan; English Editing and Writing Sat, 19 May 2012 23:35:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Rex Harrison http://belletra.com/editor-at-large/mixing-metaphors-on-american-idol/#comment-14 Rex Harrison Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:39:54 +0000 http://belletra.com/editor-at-large/mixing-metaphors-on-american-idol/#comment-14 Tempest is a low frequency car crash of syllables from Old French used often to refer to Shakespeare's last play but rarely to refer to a weather event ("Look outside Mummy! It is blowing a tempest!"). Storm is a trusted pithy Anglo-Saxon workhorse. A weather event in a teacup is imageable. The familiar sight of perturbed liquids threatening to spill over the side etc. One can barely even picture the inside of teapots let alone conjure a storm there. A considerable price to pay for a little alliteration I would've thought. Some food for thought...Or should that be "Some gastronomy for genuflection"? Tempest is a low frequency car crash of syllables from Old French used often to refer to Shakespeare’s last play but rarely to refer to a weather event (”Look outside Mummy! It is blowing a tempest!”). Storm is a trusted pithy Anglo-Saxon workhorse.

A weather event in a teacup is imageable. The familiar sight of perturbed liquids threatening to spill over the side etc. One can barely even picture the inside of teapots let alone conjure a storm there.

A considerable price to pay for a little alliteration I would’ve thought.

Some food for thought…Or should that be “Some gastronomy for genuflection”?

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