Gosh. The possibility that '"wood" means the material out of which the trees are made' had never even occurred to me. So I certainly thought it was meant to mean that you can't see the big picture because you're too mired in the details, rather than that you can't see even finer detail because you're looking from too far away.
Plus, does anybody really think of trees as being made from wood? I think of it more as wood being a product of trees. "You can't see the pig for the pork" doesn't make sense, does it?
Although, I notice that (almost) everyone who picked the second option *also* picked the first option. Do those people think the saying incorporates a cunning pun, then? Gosh.
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Date: 2005-01-20 03:58 pm (UTC)Although, I notice that (almost) everyone who picked the second option *also* picked the first option. Do those people think the saying incorporates a cunning pun, then? Gosh.
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Date: 2005-01-23 06:28 pm (UTC)Would wood be wood...............wood is .......................wood