Figures of Speech

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did you used to have trouble with figures of speech? do you still do? I remember one event in which a friend told me to go away for a minute, and I came back approximately sixty seconds later. :S I didn't realize that she didn't actually mean a minute. I wish people would just say what they mean sometimes.

What is your favorite cliche? I like money being referred to as "bread" because I don't understand where this phrase comes from.

I used to have a little trouble with figures of speech but fully understand them now, yet still feel they're plain stupid, and almost never use them in my writing. I don't have any favorite cliches, but there are plenty that I don't like, such as "23 skadoo," whatever it means (then again, it is a somewhat archaic expression). I guess my "favorite" would be "If you like it/him/her so much why don't you just marry them?"

Personally, I think there are plenty of so-called "neurotypicals" who understand figures of speech, sarcasm, and the sort a lot less than I do.

Yes, I tend to be very litteral. Not so bad that when someone would say their cool and mentioning them to warm up.

We all have problems with that I think. I don't misunderstand them as much as I used to because I usually get a picture in my head when someone says something and then I realise that's wrong. Coworkers always notice I'm distracted because I tend to take things more literally. But they all know that I do the literal thing because of the AS so it's not usually a problem. It gives everyone something to laugh about when I make a "literal" mistake.

People who know me can tell when I'm working out what they meant when they say something like "he has egg on his face". My best friend says that I kind of zone out for a minute while I try to process this confusing information. I have most phrases like that memorized now, but every so often someone will come up with a new one, and I'll totally misunderstand what they mean. A common one at my school is "he got housed" in the place of "he was defeated". And "that's nitche" in the place of "that is really quite astounding". It's hard to keep up with slang most of the time.

I have a library of funny and entertaining images that I pictured when someone said something that I didn't quite get and these images keep me entertained for hours sometimes.

For instance, one time a co worker said that she didn't want anyone blowing sunshine up her ass. Now, this machine that blows sunshine up one's ass is an astounding mechanical miracle in my head, and a pretty funny one at that.

hehe, I've never heard that one before; what does it mean?

I like you :D

I've usually seen most of them in context so I can figure out what they mean. However during my diagnostic testing they threw one at me that I still haven't figured out. Does anyone have any idea what "One swallow does not a summer make" means?

It apparently is that time when you go to visit somewhere like a facility or something and they tell you all the great things about it and act like it's Disney land or the Ball Pit at McDonald's and try to pretend that nothing ever bad happens there. So, when my co worker said "I hate it when people blow sunshine up my ass", I, of course, wondered what the machine would look like. I imagine it to be like something out of Willy Wonka only with a few more umbrellas and some sort of end with a seat that would connect directly to one's ass to facilitate the blowing.



Thanks!

This one I actually know. They mean swallow like the bird. So they usually come out around the first hints of summer time. So the saying means that just because you see one swallow, it doesn't mean it's summertime. It's just like saying that just because there's sun, water, and sand, it doesn't mean you are at the beach!

In context, it actually means to not jump to hasty conclusions. Don't assume that because of one thing it means another thing.

hehe, "like the ball pit at McDonalds" :D I like that :D

Specter, do you smile as much in real life as you smile online?

The worst for me is "What's up?" This is partially because it is always slurred together, and partially because it is completely meaningless. The only appropriate answer that I know is "not much" which conveys no information whatsoever, or, if you want to be junior high about it, you can say "the ceiling" or "the sky."

If I could ban one expression from the english language, that would probably be it.

Somewhat, but to be honest I'm really getting pretty sick and tired of the excessive use of idioms and slang in modern verbal discourse . Slang is for people who's vocubulary is lacking and so they use slang to sound cool and SOCIALLY sophisticated. Ditto with idioms-the presumption is that a situation cannot be understood directly so an analogy must be drawn thats more ordinary; its very anti-intellectual.

hehe, I get that a lot :D thank you.

no, I don't. The forming of a smile is uncomfortable for me for some reason. I'm usually very neutral in my facial expressions. :S but I am very expressive in my writing and poetry, and when I am online.. :D

I agree, I think I like this one the least. :D

I get some, and don't get others. It's a scrambled bag.