metaphor (was: Re: [lojban] META : Who is everyone (and what are they saying)

[And Rosta <arosta@uclan.ac.uk>]

xorxes:
#Probably pe'a-ists will want to say {no prenu cu danlu pe'a},
#but that sort of kills the effect that a good metaphor has.

Also, since the work of George Lakoff and the school of cognitive linguistics (of which Robin TR is a fully paid up member), we know that all language is essentially metaphorical. The correspondence between meaning encoded in the sentence and the situation the utterance is intended to describe is a
relationship of resemblance. So the absence of pe'a does not indicate the absence of figuration; rather, the presence of pe'a is an indicator to the addressee to interpret the utterance as a markedly extreme case of figuration.

--And.