Re: Sons of Thunder
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:32 pm
I've always liked the way the person who made the POCM website describes borrowing:
http://pocm.info/borrowing_getting_started.htmlGo shopping for the healthful and refreshing beverage Mountain Dew, and up on the grocery shelf you'll see a number of drinks that are pretty similar to Dew. Sugar water drinks. Fizzy drinks. In aluminum cans. Twelve ounce cans. With pop tops.
Did the fine people at Mountain create Dew by copying the idea of putting fizzy sugar water in a twelve-ounce pop-top aluminum can from anyone in particular? From Coke? From Pepsi? Fanta? No they didn't. Fizzy sugar water in a twelve-ounce pop-top aluminum can is soda. The idea of soda is part of our culture. Dew looks like all the other soda drinks, not because it is a direct copy of any one of them, but because our modern culture has the idea of soda, and Dew is just another one. When a modern person makes a new soda, these are the things we put in.
At POCM, that's what "borrowing" is. Borrowing just means "Accepting and incorporating the ideas of your culture," or, "Absorbing the ideas of your culture."