Strained analogies are bad enough, but a special award for teaching anti-patterns should go to analogies to some local features - e.g. to a sport that's popular only in some countries, or a local geographic feature or corporation.
To someone reading in Europe, explaining something by analogy to baseball innings, bases and pitchers reads: "think of it like dipping your youtiao in chashaojiang instead of haoyou"
To someone reading in Europe, explaining something by analogy to baseball innings, bases and pitchers reads: "think of it like dipping your youtiao in chashaojiang instead of haoyou"