falenas108 comments on Living Metaphorically - Less Wrong

24 Post author: lukeprog 28 November 2011 03:01PM

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Comment author: Spurlock 28 November 2011 03:54:51PM *  6 points [-]

It seems to be a prediction of this idea that the metaphors you listed should be found even in extremely disconnected cultural settings: find a jungle tribe uncontaminated by western civilization, and you should expect their word for "destination" to also mean "goal", and so forth. Is this the case?

Which brings me to my next point... where's my mountain of footnotes/citations???

Comment author: falenas108 28 November 2011 04:23:48PM 3 points [-]

I believe all quotes were from the book at the beginning, but it still doesn't feel like a lukeprog post without at least a page of citations at the end.