03-06-2019, 10:24 AM
(03-05-2019, 11:11 PM)genba Wrote: there are all sorts of `pill` concepts made to contain certain ideologies and modalities. it's a lil silly...
It's a lot o' silly. It reminds me of the phone phreaking days when someone introduced an electronic gadget called the blue box or something or other. Soon, there were beige boxes and brown boxes and what-not that offered little more functionality than the original blue box.
Then there's the whole LGBTEIEIO thing. It originally encompassed a few sexuality traits that were obviously related. Different groups keep jumping on the bandwagon and tacking on more letters until they end up with alphabet soup.
A metaphor can only be extended so far before the original clear and simple sense of it is drowned out by its own verbosity.