Fresh language
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On Language Log you get new, fresh language, not just recycled phrases and repetitions of earlier prose. A search of the web suggests nobody had ever written down the phrase "epic paroxysm of poppycock" in the previous history of the world until Mark used it in the foregoing post. (It has some other very striking phraseology too. Mark is angry at this latest piece of junk science journalism! Check it out.)