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Conlangery #66: Conceptual Metaphors

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The Pervasiveness of Conceptual Metaphors

Every language has certain sort of metaphors that are like well we all know what metaphor is it's sort of sort of um you can have ad hoc metaphors in literature and in even an everyday speech. A lot of languages have almost like baked in metaphors that end up getting extended into idioms, vocabulary derivation and such. William I'm going to kick it to you because you have a bunch of examples of all kinds of different metaphors for example.

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