[Air-L] Re: Metaphors in Technology

[Deborah Elizabeth Finn]

Dear Gordon, and other esteemed colleagues:

I recommend "Metaphors We Compute By," a lecture delivered by John
Lawler to Information Technology Division
of the University of Michigan.  (He is a professor of linguistics there.)

You can find the original here:
<http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/meta4compute.html>, or read
another version in the anthology "Figures of Thought" (Dona J. Hickey;
Mayfield Publishing, 1999).

Best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Cyber-Yenta
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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