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[dark_phoenix54]

I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World, by James Geary. HarperCollins, 2011 I have always tended to think of metaphors as statements like “ran like the wind” or “raven haired”; statements that are obvious comparisons. Geary points out that metaphor goes far deeper in our language; stocks ‘climb’

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[kest]

I recommend Lakoff on this subject...'Metaphors We Live By' is the classic, 'Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things' is interesting, and lately he's been doing a bunch of political stuff like 'Don't Think of an Elephant', about how the right is really good at using language to frame the debate and the left has been playing catchup.

[tenshikurai9]

So I used Amazon preview, the surprise me feature, and found myself reading about the high use of parable among the Managalese on p 183. My thought instantly went to, wow, it must suck to be an autistic Managalese person.