1 Nov
2016
1 Nov
'16
11:36 p.m.
Jason White via luv-talk wrote:
Trent W. Buck via luv-talk <luv-talk@luv.asn.au> wrote:
ObRant: I'm sick of people referring to article invocation as "button pushing". Is "invoke" too complicated a concept the UK media?
No, but in this case I think the metaphor (associating invocation of Article 50 with pressing the button that triggers a missile launch) [...]
That metaphor honestly hadn't occurred to me. I push thousands of buttons every day, so it seemed trivialising.