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Thanks for the insights. Languages that contain a lot of metaphor in everyday speech are really interesting.
If you enjoy that aspect of language, and like old school CRPGs (the original Baldur's Gate era, late 90s early 2000s) then you NEED to play Planescape: Torment.
There is a companion character Dak'kon. If you deep dive into his stuff, you get to learn the history and metaphor that his people's speech drips with.
There is an enhanced edition out (Steam, etc), but I had the original CDs so I haven't used it, but it looks like it runs natively on Windows and Linux even if I can't comment on the changes.
If gaming isn't your thing... I still recommend it. More lines of dialog than all of Shakespeare's works, and you gotta read it all, and the combat is honestly its lowest selling point, its not bad for the time, it was just lacking any complexity for its time.
I still liked the game enough to warrant over a dozen play throughs over the years (and I don't think I've seen everything just yet) and have the Rune of Torment inked permanently in my flesh (which also has connotations from the game).