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Conlangery #104: Spatial Metaphors for Time

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Is There a Language That Translates Like That?

The only example I could think of where you have a language that actually translates like a left to right thing into a temporal metaphor in the language would be like linguist use of right and left. But if there's like a word for like, maybe if you're using absolute direction and there's a word forlike where the sun rises and where it sets rather than up and down or before you and behind you, that set of prepositions could be used in a conceptual metaphor kind of way or a space time metaphor. And I think Hasselmat's sample, I don't think has any of those kinds of languages in it. So it would be interesting to find out if they do

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