I did not get that analogy, if that was the poster's intent it was not clear at all.
And I don't get how you can play grammar police with that post of yours.
Sorry you just hit my pet peeve....
I'm sorry you didn't understand. Let's look at the original post, with emphasis added:
There are 5 HBCU Pharmacy schools in the country. I think it is fair that they compare themselves to other HBCUs with similiar population size and resources just as it would be fair for any school [in the ACC, BIG 10, BIG 12, BIG EAST, SEC etc.] to compare themselves to similiar institutions. I honestly don't think it was the attempt of Hampton to make it a race issue, but to show that the length of probation was inappropriate. (I do agree however that if they were going list other schools that were on probation why not list them all, it might strengthen their arguement)
First, we'll examine the definition of "analogy" from dictionary.com, once again with emphasis added:
a⋅nal⋅o⋅gy
noun, plural -gies.
1. a
similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.
2. similarity or
comparability: I see no analogy between your problem and mine.
3. Biology. an analogous relationship.
4. Linguistics. a. the process by which words or phrases are created or re-formed according to existing patterns in the language, as when shoon was re-formed as shoes, when -ize is added to nouns like winter to form verbs, or when a child says foots for feet.
b. a form resulting from such a process.
5. Logic. a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be
similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of the known
similarity between the things in other respects.
Synonyms:
1. comparison, likeness, resemblance, similitude, affinity.
2. correspondence.
So you see, the post was very clear. I hope this clears up any confusion. As to the part about my post vexing you with grammatical errors, to which errors were you refering to?