Cheeky bit of end-of-year weak Whorfianism.
'English describes acoustic pitch using a verticality metaphor (high-low), but a study by experts in musical cognition found that people around the world use at least thirty-five other mappings, such as small-big, alert-sleepy, pretty-ugly, tense-relaxed, summer-winter, and—in the case of some traditional Zimbabwean instrumentalists—“crocodile” (low pitch) and “those who follow crocodiles” (high pitch).'
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@jcalpickard A fun thing about how we talk about the blue–orange dimension of color in English is that we often use temperature but in two entirely opposite ways.
