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Language and Metaphor and the Lake Off Book
I was talking with someone recently about lira boroditski's work about Directionality of time it seems to be quite different in different languages. In some languages for example, the past is thought to be in front of you Because you can see it and whereas the future is behind you because it is unknown. And there are things like that that are actually particular to our language, but we you know a bit like oga was saying at the beginning. Once you start speaking in a certain way It can be Very hard to see that that's an assumption or that that's a you've kind of got this frame on the world Or you're you're seeing through a lens, but