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Dave Winer interviews George Lakoff in a Morning Coffee Notes podcast. The interview brings out Lakoff’s message regarding framing our understanding through metaphor. His application of cognitive linguistics to progressive thought is also nicely detailed. The interview could have been tighter, the interviewee given a freer rein and the interviewer could have been less obtrusive, but all in all this is an hour of web audio worth hearing.

(I was tickled by an early example he used about our common understandings. We all know that a bottle holds something and you can pour the contents from the bottle. I had a flash that the certainty of that knowledge doesn’t hold for all of us. That some of us know about bottles that are less easily filled and less easily emptied, Klein bottles!)

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