Reviewing staples.

[farla]

It occurred to me that a lot of people say "original" when what they mean is "unusual."

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[farla.livejournal.com]

::pokes:: Um, Lainy, your logic hurts and stings.

If out of a hundred stories ten of them involve a kid getting a pokemon from his aunt, then it's unusual, but in a fandom with a thousand stories, that's still a hundred stories where the kid gets it from his aunt. It's true unusual things might be original, but people tend to use it to mean "huh, I've only seen this a dozen times."

Original should mean unique, not unusual.

Ah! I hadn't noticed that. Happy nearly-the-ides-of-March to you.