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The surprising ways that metaphors shape your world
- tokenadult 17y ago"The result has been a torrent of research testing the links between metaphors and their physical roots, with many of the papers reading as if they were commissioned by Amelia Bedelia, the implacably literal-minded children’s book hero." That's a great simile in the article. Linguists who study translation (for example Peter Newmark) have been studying metaphor for a long time. What's interesting about metaphor is how automatically writers and speakers use metaphor in communication, and how much a reader or listener with a different linguistic background may not recognize a metaphor.