There is a kind of person who doesn't engage much with culture/art, be it high or low brow, and so does not realise that much of our crafted words are quotes, appropriations and remixes of past-art words and phrases. Like aphantasia or lack of inner monologue, it blows my mind.
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I'm quoting Bladerunner here (a new life awaits you... offworld in the colonies):https://twitter.com/ssica3003/status/1219564115993059328 …
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one of my 'theories-in-development' it's more important to know the cultural references than the actual material they're based on sort of like how Chinese speakers know 成语 but probably not the stories behind them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengyu
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