
Conlangery #66: Conceptual Metaphors
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The Importance of Cognitive Metaphors in Translation
When you are translating texts it's very important that as you're going sentence by sentence phrase by phrase you think very carefully about how your language is going to express this stuff. These cognitive metaphors are an important tool to think about so that you don't go further and further from relaxing english or find some other metaphor to express that not in every case in some cases there's likely to be coincidences but just be aware of the fact that these are these these can be metaphoricalYeah of all the kinds of accidental relaxes and accidental smuggling of our native language into our conlangs these have got to be the most subtle that we've ever talked about.
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