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It’s great when you coin a phrase that really resonates with people, right? Until they start using it for businesses and ventures that are at odds with the meaning of it… Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, hosts of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend and authors of the new book Big Friendship, talk about what their term Shine Theory really means and what they had to do to keep it that way.
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS:
Although Aminatou and Ann had been using the term ‘Shine Theory’ for some time before, as we know, the linguistic records of a term entering the language go on written instances, so here’s Ann’s article in New York Magazine in 2013 which sent Shine Theory into the world more widely.
At shinetheory.com, check the definition, examples and suitable usage of ‘Shine Theory’.
And here’s the Killers song ‘Read My Mind’ which Aminatou says inspired the term.
(Not appropriate at all, but I kept thinking of the pass-agg anthem ‘Women Gotta Stick Together’ from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.)
About the Shalane Flanagan Effect.
Deborah Tannen’s book You’re The Only One I Can Tell really gets into the detail of the language of friendships.
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CREDITS:
Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman are the hosts of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend and authors of the new book Big Friendship, which is out now in paper, e- and audio forms.
The Allusionist music is by Martin Austwick. Download his songs at palebirdmusic.com and listen to his podcast Year of the Bird about the songs he writes.
This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman.
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