When I saw Gurkenglas’ comment, I had a quick think for “a name for the class of things that “punching” is a metaphor for”, and didn’t come up with anything. But I agree that “sanctions” fits, so thanks for supplying that word.
Still, I’m basically going to ignore this criticism. Not that it’s necessarily unfair or incorrect or anything. (It doesn’t strike me as particularly salient. But I may be atypical, or I may be too close to be objective.)
But I’m not confident I could have reliably anticipated it without also anticipating a bunch of other potential criticisms that would seem similarly important. And I have a hard enough time writing something that satisfies myself. I don’t want to add more prune.
As an aside: I assume it’s just an oversight, but I would prefer if you link your copy back to the original, since it’s publicly listed.
When I saw Gurkenglas’ comment, I had a quick think for “a name for the class of things that “punching” is a metaphor for”, and didn’t come up with anything. But I agree that “sanctions” fits, so thanks for supplying that word.
Still, I’m basically going to ignore this criticism. Not that it’s necessarily unfair or incorrect or anything. (It doesn’t strike me as particularly salient. But I may be atypical, or I may be too close to be objective.)
But I’m not confident I could have reliably anticipated it without also anticipating a bunch of other potential criticisms that would seem similarly important. And I have a hard enough time writing something that satisfies myself. I don’t want to add more prune.
As an aside: I assume it’s just an oversight, but I would prefer if you link your copy back to the original, since it’s publicly listed.
I have added a note to the top of the essay making it clear that it’s referring to this post.
Thanks.