Discuss

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 12:45:33 CST 2013


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Ian Livingston
<igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ours is the first generation in human history to be raised consuming
> petrochemicals in the midst of almost uninterrupted nuclear fallout. What
> makes you think you haven't been experimented upon is called denial in the
> psychoanalytic parlance.
>

a-and artificial sweeteners about which popular parlance and bywords
haven't completely caught up --

- millions of similes, tropes, etc about sugar

- a few about saccharine - "saccharine smile", "revenge is sweet,
saccharine sweet" usw

- none that i know of about cyclamates

- nor sucralose nor aspartame

("phrasemakers, start your writing engines!")



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