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oblique
I was considering the number of words we have lifted from geometry and put to good use as metaphors and this is one. Another obtuse. Square. Anyone else?
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Re: oblique
I wonder how many of these possibilities actually come from geometry. Perhaps they are simply shared analogies?
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