"What we talk about isn't what we experience - we speak chiefly of interesting things, and those tend to be the things that are uncommon. More or less by definition, events are always experienced at their proper frequencies, but this isn't all true of language. Anyone who has experienced a snake bite or a lightning strike will tend to retell those singular stories for the rest of their lives. And those stories will be so salient that they will be picked up and retold by others."
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