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
>> metaphor.
>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.
I'm not checking my books, but I'm pretty sure it was Uplift War. In
fact it was a running theme in that novel as one of the ET's kept
commenting on how strange it was how us wolflings used metaphor constantly.
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