If I say, “I’m moving Monday’s noon meeting forward 2 hours”. What time is it (initial reactions only)?

There are two different interpretations, and the one you choose says a lot about your personal perception of time.

I’m going to tweet a Wikipedia article in a bit with more information once more people have responded. It’s fascinating to see the two sides in contention.

There’s a cognitive linguistics concept called “fictive motion”:

1) Time-moving - You perceive yourself as fixed, with time moving relative to you, forward or backward.

2) Ego-moving - You perceive yourself as moving along with time toward the future.

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And to clarify:

If you said 10am you perceive things with “time-moving” metaphor.

If you said 2pm, you perceive things with “ego-moving” metaphor”