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jbattle on March 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO (2011)

> ingrained in human linguistics

Or maybe more accurately it's deeply ingrained in Anglo-American culture?

jasode on March 13, 2020 [–]

>Or maybe more accurately it's deeply ingrained in Anglo-American culture?

I don't know about all languages but French, German, and Chinese all have military and war metaphors that are commonly used in everyday speech. It's not unique to American English.

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