You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

H. Jackson Brown Jr

My characters say it’s okay to screw up. People don’t have to be perfect. They don’t have to be real smart. They don’t have to follow the rules. They can have fun. Most movies today make people feel inadequate. I don’t do that.

John Belushi

Originality is fragile. And, in its first moments, it’s often far from pretty.

Ed Catmull

We can only judge of things by their effects. Our perception constantly deceives us, in things with which we suppose ourselves perfectly conversant; but our reception of their effect is a different matter.

On the Realities of Imagination (Leigh Hunt, 1822)

Sometimes people need their faith rewarded.

– Batman

In linguistica, la paretimologia, o etimologia popolare, è il processo attraverso il quale un parlante tenta di rimotivare un segno altrimenti oscuro per la sua competenza linguistica. Una parola viene così reinterpretata sulla base di somiglianze di forma o di significato con altre parole, deviando dalla forma o dal significato originario.

Generalmente la cosa avviene quando si perde la trasparenza della parola e occorre trovare un sostegno per significato o suono a una parola che sembra averlo perso, anche forzandone la forma stessa.

– Denis Diderot

SONG OF THE DAY: Lusine – Stones Throw (Language Barrier, 2007)