An example of metaphor and simile in broadcast science journalism:
RP: "…before the rehabilitation, all these damaged nerves are sort of screaming to try and get the message through to the legs, but it is not working. But, the, some of the nerves learn that they can actually do this, and the other ones become less loud. In other words you are sort of retraining those nerves almost."
JB: "Exactly, so if you look at this nerve, it is probably not dominant when you have this lesion and all the others are speaking very loud and they cannot really make a proper signal, and then, with the rehab, this nerve is taking the lead, and is shutting down the others. So that is why probably there is less activity, the others stop talking and this is the one that is now talking the loudest and that is helping for the movement."
BBC Inside Science
Roland Pease interviewing Jocelyne Bloch, Associate Professor at the Université de Lausanne, on an episode ('Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients') of BBC's Science in Action
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