Yes, like rivers "running"!Steve3007 wrote: ↑November 8th, 2021, 12:31 pmPattern-chaser wrote:So much of our language is metaphorical in nature. It's so widespread that we don't even notice it. Few people would be consciously aware, when they referred to a river "running", that they were using a metaphor. But a river has no legs; it cannot "run". It's a metaphor. I won't rant on about this any more than that; more information can be found here: "Metaphors we live by" - George Lakoff
There's an interesting episode of "Fry's English Delight" about metaphor too:
https://soundcloud.com/englicious/frys- ... t-metaphor
The number of metaphors with nautical/seafaring origins is interesting. As is the idea of "paleo-metaphors". - metaphors so deeply embedded in the language that we don't even think they're metaphors any more.
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Simone describes what we now call populism. While there is a case to be made for members of the power elite to persuade rather than punish, the only way populist politicians can be exchanged for politicians with integrity is for ordinary citizens to be educated citizens of a democracy.I might compare them to a man who should study the tempers and desires of a mighty strong beast who is fed by him--he would learn how to approach and handle him, also at what times and from what causes he is dangerous or the reverse, and what is the meaning of his several cries, and by what sounds, when another utters them, he is soothed or infuriated; and you may suppose further, that when, by continually attending upon him, he has become perfect in all this, he calls his knowledge wisdom, and makes of it a system or art, which he proceeds to teach, although he has no real notion of what he means by the principles or passions of which he is speaking, but calls this honourable and that dishonourable, or good or evil, or just or unjust, all in accordance with the tastes and tempers of the great brute. Good he pronounces to be that in which the beast delights and evil to be that which he dislikes...
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