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The internet black hole I traveled down this morning led me to the website of the French Academy - the body that governs over the French language. Being word nerds, the Academy has added a "to say and not say" blog to their site which includes posts ranging from reflections on the politicization of the French language in Algeria to burns about French organizations using English words for slogans to straight up grids of how to correctly and incorrectly use French words. I'm ac

Words are important. You know what is more important? Words that don't mean what they are supposed to mean. That's right, folks, we're talking metaphors - the ligustic equivalent to a gilded rococo sideboard. Why did you buy that crazy sideboard? Because it's freaking awesome, that's why. And so are metaphors. Some metaphors are so cool that they become codified as an idiomatic expression unique to a time and place. There is something special about using an idom - if you are