On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM, KZK <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to hear Dr. Brin's thoughts on this: > http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html > > He touched on the concept in some of the Uplift Novels, where galactic > languages have generally been constructed in a way that eliminates > metaphore.
I don't recall that.. and it would have struck me, I would have thought, since it seems impossible to have language without metaphor. It's almost not language unless there's metaphor. Nick
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