analogies

In applied linguistics last week, we made up some analogies for linguistics. There were five started for us, such as: linguistics is to applied linguistics as_____is to____. I came up with one good one myself: pragmatics is to grammar as je ne sait quoi is to savoir faire. Those that got it were tickled pink with this one. Meybe it wasn't fair to do one in French, but those phrases are pretty commonly borrowed into English... Some other ones brought up in class were: lie is to figure of speech as daggar is to pocket knife, and linguistics is to applied linguistics as architecture is to construction. It was a fun class! But then, this class has been one fun surprise after the next... Tomorrow, my group is presenting. I hope that goes well, and I expect that it will...