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Category: Religion and Philosophy
METAPHORS TO BE EXPUNGED
AKA - things not to write
No.1
"cost lives"
This a a terrible phrase.
Just about any other verb would be better. Channeling Lakoff, "cost" evokes a frame that, I bet when think about it, you don't really like either.
- John (resurrecting a whiteboard forum I started in a meat-space newsroom years ago)
11:20 PM
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