Over a board game at the Gallery yesterday evening, someone mentioned that ‘echolalia’ was the technical term for the habit of repeating your interlocutor's last few words as they say them. drswirly looked at me and said ‘It's also a thingy on whatsit, isn't it?’. Now normally I giggle gently at Gareth's fondness for whatsits and oojits and thingys in place of genuine nouns, but in this case I didn't even notice until after the fact, because I had effortlessly (and correctly) parsed this as ‘a track on a Dead Can Dance album’, without registering that all the actual content in the sentence had apparently been telepathic. How very silly.

In other news, it occurred to me last night that Zeus was the original Philanders & Swan. Ahem.