Well the problem is that some keywords and primitives are such generic words that it would be really really hard to make some meaningful stories without them leaking in... I do see the point you are making though and agree that it can be a problem.

alyks wrote:

When you recall a story and mistake things for primitives that aren't, maybe it's just you're putting emphasis on parts of the imagery that aren't primitives. I focus on the images of the primitives and how the story unfolds from one primitive to the next. I also make each image relevant, or cut it out of my story.

Could you give us some examples of what's happening?

If you don't know a word is later going to be used as a keyword then you won't know to avoid it until later, and by then you've already leaned the misleading story.  Actually, even if you do know it's a keyword you won't realise the danger until the intervals get long enough for this to start happening... 

When it happens I change the story, but the problem could be easily prevented from happening in the first place.

I haven't reviewed for a while (1000 cards due now...) but here's a couple that happened just now as I start to catch up:

A lot of stories for "permit" use the phrase "straight from the horse's mouth", so I remembered "mouth" rather than "words".

For "apply" I used trikatu's story "To apply for a visa you have to go into the cave of the embassy (remember government offices are also caves) and plead your heart out." and remembered the whole of "government office" instead of just cave.

Not the best examples as they were for words that were already known to be keywords, but it gives you some idea...