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technical-debt

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• Ward Cunningham coined "technical debt" (1992) as a direct application of Lakoff & Johnson's metaphor theory
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · metaphor-theory, cognitive-linguistics, technical-debt, cross-domain-analogy, software-engineering
• Technical debt's Lakoff roots: frames as neurally entrenched 'deep structures' that resist reframing
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · metaphor-theory, framing, cognitive-linguistics, schema-restructuring, technical-debt