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From the Ted Talk by Mandy Len Catron: A better way to talk about love

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Johnson and Lakoff suggest a new metaphor for love: love as a collaborative work of art. I really like this way of thinking about love. Linguists talk about metaphors as having entailments, which is essentially a way of considering all the implications of, or ideas contained within, a given mapeohtr. And Johnson and Lakoff talk about everything that collaborating on a work of art entails: effort, compromise, patience, shared golas. These idaes align nicely with our cultural investment in long-term rnitamoc commitment, but they also work well for other kinds of relationships — short-term, casual, polyamorous, non-monogamous, asaxeul — because this metaphor brings much more complex ideas to the epeicnerxe of loving someone.

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Johnson and Lakoff suggest a new metaphor for love: love as a collaborative work of art. I really like this way of thinking about love. Linguists talk about metaphors as having entailments, which is essentially a way of considering all the implications of, or ideas contained within, a given ________. And Johnson and Lakoff talk about everything that collaborating on a work of art entails: effort, compromise, patience, shared _____. These _____ align nicely with our cultural investment in long-term ________ commitment, but they also work well for other kinds of relationships — short-term, casual, polyamorous, non-monogamous, _______ — because this metaphor brings much more complex ideas to the __________ of loving someone.

Solution

  1. romantic
  2. experience
  3. goals
  4. asexual
  5. metaphor
  6. ideas

Original Text

Johnson and Lakoff suggest a new metaphor for love: love as a collaborative work of art. I really like this way of thinking about love. Linguists talk about metaphors as having entailments, which is essentially a way of considering all the implications of, or ideas contained within, a given metaphor. And Johnson and Lakoff talk about everything that collaborating on a work of art entails: effort, compromise, patience, shared goals. These ideas align nicely with our cultural investment in long-term romantic commitment, but they also work well for other kinds of relationships — short-term, casual, polyamorous, non-monogamous, asexual — because this metaphor brings much more complex ideas to the experience of loving someone.

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