OK, so it is a strange word. When we first started throwing around ideas for names this one appealed because it means "a name of something standing in for the name of something else or concept, ie suit for businessmen or skirt for women." Which is kind of neat twisty artsy idea... but OK, we admit it, we chose the name mainly because it sounded cool.
Of course, any quick Google will show that Metonymy is, in fact a far more complicated idea with everyone from Freud to drama theorists to linguists playing with the idea. It's a concept with lots of interesting twists and turns of thought, in fact.
But is this discussion relevant to my collaboration?
Ummm. No! Do whatever you want, you definitely don't have to do something connected with 'Metonymy', however you choose to define it... though to start an argument we could naughtily suggest that 'all art is Metonymy' (hmmmmm!). We just thought it would be fun to mention what the word means.
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