Degree Of Functioning Is Health - The blender just died - His engine came to life - This battery has a life of 3 years - Her typewriter is sick - The typewriter went crazy
Note: which have certain metaphorical features: self-replicating, destructive,and attached to normal (executable) programs.
Cessation Of Function Is Killing - Kill the lights, music, etc.
Calculation Is Thinking - My computer is thinking about the problem - The thermostat figures out how to adjust the temperature
- 1 "ROM looks for purged menus."
- 2 "Memory manager can throw them away if it needs the space"
- 3 "Resource manager tries to load. . ."
- 4 "...where the application would like the new object to go..."
- 5 "the memory manager does not relocate objects just for the hell of it"
- 7 "the compiler knows..."
- 8 "the memory manager understands"
- 9 "the memory manager is actually pretty smart."
- 10 My PC's personality is defined by its ROM
- 11 The Mac is user-friendly
Note: depending on the expertise of the speaker in the domian of computers.Thus an expert speaker might personify the compiler, while a less expertspeaker might personify the program, and a novice might personify thewhole computer.
Student paper--examples from computer manual, Alan Schwartz