Sadly, most people’s lives are a lot more routine. We do the same things, say the same things, repeat the same things we heard. Originality only occurs at the fringes, not in the quotidian.
When you factor in proper nouns, dates/times, locations, and other small variables that may be unique to your situation I bet it's way more often than you think.
Like, for my job the below isn't an uncommon sentence.
"Hey [client], so I've had a look and can see why [server name], when down on the [shortened date], it looks like [issue] happened."
However, I'll bet every penny I have, that this specific sentence with whichever specific variables I used had never been said before.
Even if someone were to convey the exact same message, which is already unlikely, there's a plethora of ways to do so, so it's even more difficult for an exact match to happen.
Yeah, people vastly underestimate the number of combinations of variables in a sentence as well as the number of different sentences that can express the same idea.
I might ask Brayden about his late homework every single day, but I've probably never said, "Hey Brayden, did you get a chance to turn in Tuesday's homework on page 325 yet?"
Though, a lot of my brand new sentences have to do with some combination of special breeds of stupid, or things that shouldn't be physically possible (often, they overlap).
Quotidien is used quotidiennement in French while it's my first time reading quotidian in English. So you might have used one of those unique sentences right here.
I work in early childhood education. Can’t say how many times a day I talk to families and tell a story about what happened in the child’s day, and it is not what I expected to happen, but completely reasonable for that child to do because of their personality. I do come home with interesting stories everyday though.
Isn't there a theory that humanity has only ever come up with like 7 stories, and every story after that is just rehashing old ideas in different combinations
consider something as simple as “We can watch Lisa Frankenstein tomorrow; today I’m gonna stop by Kroger to pick up some Pepto-Bismol after I drop Roxy off at the vet.”
not that weird. a perfectly normal thing for me to say. but what are the chances someone else has ever said it?
This is true, however, I highly doubt anyone has said "Okay. Let's toast all the he are bread." or "The Kraken is not the same thing as the tyrannical king!" before.
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u/Kinggrunio 10d ago
Sadly, most people’s lives are a lot more routine. We do the same things, say the same things, repeat the same things we heard. Originality only occurs at the fringes, not in the quotidian.