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Conlangery #104: Spatial Metaphors for Time

Conlangery Podcast

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Time Moving Metaphors Versus Past Moving Metamorphoses

In English, states like being happy or sad are either things that come upon us or things that we enter ourselves. So again, once motions involve, there's lots of motions that you can do and any given language is going to use both of them to mix degrees. And time moving metaphors may actually lend itself more to up and down because gravity is sort of an undirected motion. But I don't know.

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