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Re: Idiomatic Language

From:Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...>
Date:Monday, March 1, 2004, 22:08
Aloyen writes:

>I was contemplating a language that was completely made of idioms and >metaphors. > >Has anyone else ever walked down that path with their language?
I don't see how, as metaphors and idioms refer obliquely to other things, which means you have to know what the other things are. Kou

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