
Conlangery #66: Conceptual Metaphors
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The Different Metaphors of the Hebrew Old Testament
conceptual metaphors that appears to be more or less universal is that an angry person is a pressurized container which is just fun to say. George Lakehoff in the 70s and 80s really kicked off the study of this um there's still work going on in itUm not surprisingly translators have really dug into this because it's they're a mess to translate we're gonna see a bunch today where if you translate things literally it's going to sound it's either going to make no sense There's going to be so strange that you've stopped at near tracks, he says.
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