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I'm considered eloquent and poetic and I hardly ever mean to be.

I appear to do this by 'throwing the dart wrong', and storing similar concepts adjacently.

Like I just did in the sentence above. I could have said, "choosing incorrectly from adjacent elements".

But I didn't; I chose the vivid, short, memorable form that came up first when reached for <unintentional variability in speech performance due to inefficient retrieval selection and poor discrimination between adjacent concepts>.

You'll remember the dart and the dartboard, not the phrase between angle-brackets above.

Slight errors can make you memorable, and eloquence is basically memorability

parent 1attice 3 years ago

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