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Conlangery #104: Spatial Metaphors for Time

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A Bar Ditzky's Space Time Metaphors

There's some really interesting things I was looking around for articles and papers on space time metaphors found a couple that were there. One of the main speakers are more likely to talk about time using vertical metaphors that are English speakers. They mentioned that whereas English is more English uses more horizontal oriented time and axes for time, Chinese uses more vertical. So they analyzed how quickly they responded based on certain data they were presented with in certain orientations.

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