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Conlangery #104: Spatial Metaphors for Time

Conlangery Podcast

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How Languages Construct Time

There was an interesting thing that I found in one of my papers that's kind of relevant to this point here if I can just mention it. People whose language was written left to right put the first photo in the sequence on the left and progressed to the right. Like Arabic, Hebrew, they did it that way. And the people whose languages had absolute space, it depended which way they were facing how they set up photos. So when they're facing south, they laid them out left to right. They're facing north, they're not right to left. On their facing east, they came toward them. When they're facing west, they would lay them away from them. That's

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