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Xod: > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Robin Turner wrote: > > > I imagine cognitive linguists would also find it interesting from the > > point of metaphor. Lojban combines the explicit metaphor-making of > > lujvo (which are not metaphorical in the common sense of the word, but > > are in the cogling sense) with an attempt to suppress unmarked metaphor > > (which to a mainstream cognitive linguist would be quixotic but > > interesting). > > > Can you explain more about what Lojban is doing that seems quixotic to > linguists? Thanks! A central tenet of Cognitive Linguistics is that metaphor is fundamental to language -- that everything is metaphor. The classic introduction to this is the very accessible book _Metaphors we live by_, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, though in the last two decades these ideas have been greatly extended and refined. Robin is a fully paid up card carrying Cognitive Linguist. --And.