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No, there isn’t really an Oregon Metaphor of the Week Prize, but maybe there should be!
(Wikipedia describes metaphor. For the record, my latest, favorite uber-metaphorist is Harry Markopolos.)
Willamette Week (homepage), cover story, July 28, 2010: Oregon’s Scariest Cops:
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Justice Bedsworth in August 2010 Criminal Waste of Space column in the OC Lawyer Magazine, wondering what it all means, gives a small cry in the wilderness of misused, mispronounced, and made up words. Humpty-Dumpty would have been proud.**
Excerpt: ‘… When someone asks you to “tell us in your own words what happened,” they don’t mean you should use YOUR OWN WORDS! They mean, “Use OUR words—English words, real words, words we’re all familiar with—in your own combinations, to tell us what happened.”
What in . . . heck . . . does it mean to say, “My level of pissivity was pretty high”? That’s not communication, that’s the Red Queen’s Tea Party.
If the jury has the collective brains of a flock of sparrows, and comes back with a question about what that means, some poor judge is gonna have to give an instruction on it. What’s she gonna say, “It means maybe I shoulda stayed in the DA’s Office”?…‘ (Link to full August 2010 article in the OC Lawyer Magazine.)
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