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Conlangery #66: Conceptual Metaphors

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Cognitive Metaphors in Language

I just try to think about the speakers of language and what they might liken it to in a figurative manner my languages tend not to be or they tend to be just from one group of people from a certain area. I was gonna say at the very least you might want to start making a list of cognitive metaphors that you're using in your language if only to help you generate your dictionary. Some of these conceptual metaphors appear to be universal because as we said some of them may be pretty obvious.

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