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 | Have you heard? They're creating a map of all the metaphors back to 700 AD. | |
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| Isn't a map a metaphor? | |
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| The map "contains more than 14,000 metaphorical connections sourced from 4m pieces of lexical data, some of which date back to 700AD." | |
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| They've created a metaphor of metaphors. A meta-metaphor. | |
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| Source: http://goo.gl/zUA40L |
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| According to the article, "The map reveals that the still popular link between sheep and timidity dates back to Old English." | |
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| What phor? | |
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