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Conlangery #104: Spatial Metaphors for Time

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Putting the Past in Front of You and the Future Behind You

If you were writing a conline for say a non-humanoid species or something that were in like the ocean or where they did not, where their movement was not restricted to mainly forward and backward. You might see something on the conceptual metaphoric scale kind of that would embody that those other dimensions. Try to figure out what the spatial metaphors would be like for a creature with radial symmetry. I don't know if I want to figure it out myself. But anyway, so that is one of the main sort of threats that was going through Haspelmat's whole book here.

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