A cliché is original to someone who has not seen it before
Category Archives: Linguistics
Analogy as the Core of Cognition – talk by Douglas Hofstadter:
(Especially for those who enjoy ‘blending words’ i.e. Benji, the rest of the de Burca’s and others who have picked up the disease from them 😉 )
It sometimes takes communicating a thought in writing or speech, to realise how wrong it was. Unexpressed, there’s no reality-test.
Insight Junkie 