Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2023-11-06, Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
> Loris Bennett (12023-11-06):
>> I beg to differ.  I think you are confusing the precise definition of
>> something with the label used to refer to it.  When the transistor was
>> invented, so was a new word to describe it.  When this particular
>> concept of how to organise data on a computer, about which we are
>> talking, was invented, the existing analog term 'directory' was chosen
>> (and not, say, 'catalogue').  Because the term already existed, using it
>> to refer to something else is by definition metaphorical.
>
> No, that is not what “metaphorical means”. Anyway, I am not interested
> in splitting hair about stylistic devices.
>

You're not interested in splitting hairs? C'est l'hôpital qui se fout de
la charité !