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Conlangery #104: Spatial Metaphors for Time

Conlangery Podcast

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Is Mandarin Vertical or Horizontal?

Mandarin has more vertical time metaphors than English does. So when people are doing conlangs, I think this is one place where you don't want to necessarily make one choice and stick with it. There's many different ways you can do it.

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