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   Kate Nyhan (kdnyhan@social.esmarconf.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 11:27:24 JST Kate Nyhan

   Help! The metaphor of "snowballing" -- starting with one paper and adding more papers to your "read this soon" pile, because they have citation relationships or they use the same dataset or they come from the same theme issue or they are by the same senior author's lab or whatever -- is there a similar metaphor that would work well in a tropical climate, where people have possibly never had the experience of rolling a snowball around until it's gigantic? #English #metaphor

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 11:27:23 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Flooding? Mushrooming? One ant comes and then many?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 11:27:45 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Melissa Santos

     @ansate @kdnyhan
     This is the best answer possible

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     Melissa Santos (ansate@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 11:27:48 JST Melissa Santos

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     @kdnyhan katamari?

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 23:48:30 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
     • David Moles

     @kdnyhan @chronodm @lffontenelle Malaysian here. Erhm, most of us speak fluent English so we know what snowball is as a metaphor 😅

     But it depends who you are trying to speak. A young urban professional in Kl has a much higher command in English while someone from a rural area may not.

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     Kate Nyhan (kdnyhan@social.esmarconf.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 23:48:32 JST Kate Nyhan

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     • Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
     • David Moles

     @chronodm Target audience is in Malaysia, so removed linguistically as well as geographically. But, @lffontenelle pointed out that Brazilians use the same metaphor, so I think you're right that I may have been overthinking things.

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     David Moles (chronodm@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 23:48:37 JST David Moles

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     @kdnyhan is a different metaphor necessary (assuming we’re talking about the real world & not, you know, writing a secondary-world fantasy novel)? I mean, I grew up in Southern California and I get the metaphor

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 23:50:05 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
     • David Moles

     @kdnyhan @chronodm @lffontenelle ps Malaysians speak multiple languages, we were a British colony