Thoughts provoking
by Aaron Weiss · updated 17d ago
Thoughts provoking
by Aaron Weiss · updated 17d ago
In almost every language, “journey” has become a way to talk abstractly about outcomes, for good reason: According to what linguists call the “primary metaphor theory,” humans learn as babies crawling toward their toys that “‘purpose’ and ‘destination’ coincide,” said Elena Semino, a linguist at Lancaster University who specializes in metaphor. As
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