The thing that’s always bothered me about that metaphoric language is that to learn it you would need to be told the stories the metaphors refer to, which means there would have to be a more basic language for telling the actual stories. Then the metaphors would make sense. Same as understanding “gaslight” or “dog whistle” etc.
I bet they only talk that way in the presence of outsiders. On their own, they must have a basic structured language while also utilizing metaphors memes where appropriate.
The thing that’s always bothered me about that metaphoric language is that to learn it you would need to be told the stories the metaphors refer to, which means there would have to be a more basic language for telling the actual stories. Then the metaphors would make sense. Same as understanding “gaslight” or “dog whistle” etc.
I bet they only talk that way in the presence of outsiders. On their own, they must have a basic structured language while also utilizing
metaphorsmemes where appropriate.