sgharms,
@sgharms@techhub.social avatar

I have a or or / question. Is there a way to refer to misattribution of reference to a second-order relationship to the referent?

Examples:

In the “Robots of Dawn” series, Lijah Bailey (from a Earth-is-one-giant-city) meets Gladia (from a tee-hee-it’s-not-the-antebellum-South-but-with-robots-not-slaves-or-is-it) planet. Smelling flowers, which are not on his world, he avers:

“These flowers smell like perfume!”

Much chuckles for the reader.

Or, today at W58/Lexington Ave across from the new DKNY ad:

“Wow that lady looks so much like Kaia Gerber!”

The lady in question is Cindy Crawford, supermodel, and mother of Kaia Gerber.

“This song is so pretty. It almost sounds like something the Beatles would have done.”

Song is Paul McCartney, solo.

Any ideas?

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