One mystery of linguistics is the actual role of morphology (in layman terms, something akin to the formation of words).
It just dawned upon me that a likely role is conveyance of the original metaphor underlying the concept.
An obvious example is "understanding."
This fits very well with the observation that gestures accompanying speech also reflect original metaphors (say "I understand" and observe your own hand movements).
Bertrand du Castel
It just dawned upon me that a likely role is conveyance of the original metaphor underlying the concept.
An obvious example is "understanding."
This fits very well with the observation that gestures accompanying speech also reflect original metaphors (say "I understand" and observe your own hand movements).
Bertrand du Castel
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