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A Discussion of Metaphor

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Is There a Difference Between English and Slavic Languages?

The Indo-European languages Start using metaphors Intensively relatively late and it said like in the 15th century whereas the Semitic languages like in Hebrew It's going on all the time in the Old Testament You know the Lord is my rock kind of thing. At least 2000 years maybe 2500 years before or something like that so it's an interesting idea to think of metaphor itself as a kind of technology which might be used by different languages Even if they're under the same.

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