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Conlangery #56: Growing a Lexicon

Conlangery Podcast

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Using Cognitive Metaphors in a Language

The word for foot is often related to the overt sort of expression of political power or violence in Kakhzai. I keep notes on the major cognitive metaphors that I've decided to use for language. How will you know, metaphor, image, really look at what's happening? What is this really encoding? And there are lots of just in ways to do that.

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