The Pervasiveness of the Class System in Chinese

The stock market is ocean water so you have metaphors of navigation but also disastrous tides bad weather all sorts of nautical terms get used in dis in describing the stock market. In mong hm ong language spoken in indochina and large parts of Wisconsin in minnesota um is a life is a thread so that the verb cut is used in expressions for giving birth for dying and for killing people Also greek mythology yeah i mean we're we're somewhat familiar with that idea in greek mythology it's not really a live metaphor  in english or any western language that i'm aware.