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Mind your language

The wonder of the Metaphor Map

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

‘What’s that?’ asked my husband, looking at my laptop. ‘Fibonacci fossilised?’ His question made no sense, but I saw what he meant. I was looking at a diagram of ‘the fabulous semantic engine, a sort of virtual sausage machine’ that I mentioned last week.

The diagram was circular, like a compass-rose with 37 points.

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