I dont know in which BiP thread it came up, about language and metaphors.
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=101514 (http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=101514)
this article basicly picks up what some guys here said.
It seemed to be a quite good artice, though, i didn't read it through yet.
gone through it and its not that good.
First paragraph is quite good, i think our world is definitly build and limited by our language, which is a vast collection of metaphors. Also i think language is one of the main influences to how we experence things.
You can't learn about a society without learning the language.