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It's very hard to find any
example
of abstract language that is not based on some concrete metaphor.
For example, you can use the verb "go" and the prepositions "to" and "from" in a literal, spatial sense.
For example, in polite requests, if someone says, "If you could pass the guacamole, that would be awesome," we know exactly what he means, even though that's a rather bizarre concept being expressed.
There's an influential taxonomy by the anthropologist Alan Fiske, in which relationships can be categorized, more or less, into communality, which works on the principle "what's mine is thine, what's thine is mine," the kind of mindset that operates within a family, for example; dominance, whose principle is "don't mess with me;" reciprocity, "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours;" and sexuality, in the immortal words of Cole Porter, "Let's do it."
For example, communality applies most naturally within family or friends, but it can be used to try to transfer the mentality of sharing to groups that ordinarily would not be disposed to exercise it.
For example, in brotherhoods, fraternal organizations, sororities, locutions like "the family of man," you try to get people who are not related to use the relationship type that would ordinarily be appropriate to close kin.
If you went over and you helped yourself to a shrimp off your boss' plate, for example, that would be an awkward situation.
In the workplace, for example, there's often a tension over whether an employee can socialize with the boss, or refer to him or her on a first-name basis.
The simplest
example
of this is in the polite request.
So for example, right now, if I focus too much on the balls, then there's no way I can relax and talk to you at the same time.
And although the techniques are similar, the outcomes are very, very different, and if you take our approach, for example, and you compare it to, say, G.M. crops, both techniques are trying to produce a massive benefit.
But whereas a G.M. crop is trying to protect the plant, for example, and give it an advantage, what we're actually doing is taking the mosquito and giving it the biggest disadvantage it can possibly have, rendering it unable to reproduce effectively.
For example, this "Citizens United" ruling is a disaster, because it means there's like a money gun aimed at your head, and if you step out of line, if you try to reach across the aisle, there's a ton of money waiting to be given to your opponent to make everybody think that you are a terrible person through negative advertising.
For example, the incarceration rate, the prison population in this country has quadrupled since 1980.
Now, I have shared this story with you as an
example
of what can happen to participants in the clinical trial when it is poorly conducted.
For example, it is counterintuitive to have an illiterate study participant, like Celine, sign a lengthy consent form that they are unable to read, let alone understand.
And to give you some example, I remember standing and looking down a road as far as I could see, at least a mile, and there were bodies piled twice my height of the dead.
For example, a kid says, "Mom, guess what?
They can write the play, for example, and the writers may work on stage art.
For example, I told you that viruses have DNA.
So in this example, a distribution company has said, we've got a rush order that we've got to get out of the warehouse tomorrow morning.
Let's take Britain as an
example.
So, taxi journeys might be one
example.
Here's an
example
from Hong Kong, where some kids made a game and then built their own physical interface device and had a light sensor, so the light sensor detects the hole in the board, so as they move the physical saw, the light sensor detects the hole and controls the virtual saw on the screen and saws down the tree.
This is an
example
from a new version of Scratch that we'll be releasing in the next few months, and we're looking again to be able to push you in new directions.
Here's an
example
of a project using the microphone.
Let me show you an
example.
Let me end with just one more
example.
So this is an
example
that came from after I had sent the Mother's Day cards to my mom, she decided that she wanted to learn Scratch.
Because, for example, if you pass a law that allows a boss to fire an employee for homosexual behavior, where exactly do you draw the line?
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