I think idk Kind of like the cute idioms that ESL folks transliterate into English I think about how "beaucoup" became an intensifier sometimes
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which one
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being high is your solution to everything
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well many things wait dont you live in amsterdam
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i giggled at that tweet's implication that language became somehow less metaphorical and distant from its natural "early humans" character. very cute "oh those poor bastards had no empirical knowledge and thus saw rivers as literal living things with mouths"
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hehe tbh i didn’t mean to imply that. using language to talk about language is hard

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"I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear." J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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Possibly almost backwards - what is new is not the metaphor but the modern centrifuge that has pulled quality away from matter?
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The metaphor vs. literal, rather. I think they were fully aware of metaphor and would argue that exoteric expression can't capture many realities full stop, a very commonsense view banished even from poetic modernity
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