Originally posted by Gooshin *facepalm
if you're going to be comparing two different cars, the correlation between which car is in which gear is complicated by the gear ratios themselves. Which is a question of design on behalf of the engineers and the "goal" that they set out for that particular car.
blah blah woof woof
He ISN'T comparing two cars. That's the point. Metaphors are not exact. If the metaphor he was using was exact it would run something like this...
Canon released the [fill model here] with the following features. Nikon released [fill model here].
In other words, it would cease to be a metaphor, and would be nothing more than the actual facts. Latitude is usually given where metaphor is in play. If he had said ... "It's JUST like cars," you could hold him to a higher standard perhaps, but then it would be simile, not metaphor.
Nice exposition of just how much you know about cars though.
I've taken more than a few turns around several tracks as an SCCA driver. I'll wager that overall I know more than you about ALL of the car crap. Even in that arena, there were those who TALKED about equipment and those who raced. Perhaps that is the correct metaphor HERE.
Originally posted by Gruoso Good point.
Heh. That's actually the better part of valor Gruoso.
woof!