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If we replaced the Oceans with orange juice that would probably be bad. But if we all work together we can do it.
100% original... oceans and oranges aren't original.
Can I use English words? Because they aren't original. I'm not so sure about this exercise.
I'm not sure, but I think maybe it goes beyond that, that maybe we wouldn't have the words in any language to be able to express it. I knew a man once who passed out, went into convulsions and almost died... we had to call an ambulance and he was taken to the hospital. He later said that when he was passed out, he saw something he had no words to describe... years later, he showed me a magazine article about a man who'd had the same experience (of having no words) and said, "This is what it's like". Even then, years later, he still couldn't tell anyone what he'd seen. So maybe that's the best we could come up with, someone saying they've had a thought with no words to explain it? I've never had a 100% original thought, so I'm just guessing.