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oblique
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 5:27 pm
by William Hupy
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?
Re: oblique
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 6:34 pm
by Slava
I wonder how many of these possibilities actually come from geometry. Perhaps they are simply shared analogies?
Re: oblique
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:20 pm
by Perry Lassiter
Oblique seems to have two pronunciations: obleek and oblike.