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• teraflop 12y ago
  It's a cool word. Are there any natural languages that have different words for spatial and non-spatial/conceptual locations? I know there are lots of distinctions that other languages make and English lacks (like medial/distal demonstratives) but I don't know what linguists would call this one, so it's hard to search for.
  • arthurcolle 12y ago
    I thought it was a 1984 Newspeak joke
  • thaumasiotes 12y ago
    > Are there any natural languages that have different words for spatial and non-spatial/conceptual locations? This is pretty common; for example, English systematically distinguishes between spatial locations ("where"/"there") and temporal locations ("when"/"then"). (My answer isn't entirely facetious; there are lots of English constructions that permit either kind of location, so it's quite plausible to view them as specializations of a more general "location" concept. I also note that while I can't understand the word "elseweb" as quoted in isolation by ixtli, it's quite transparent in context on the page, so I wouldn't be surprised to see similar things happen in English or other languages. I have personally observed people using "elsewhen".)