I was introduced to this concept a good while before DDD came along, when someone opined that if the nouns and verbs in your code don't match the problem domain that's an impedance mismatch and it's going to get you into trouble some day.

It really reads like a shame response to me. People are so pathologically allergic to saying "I was wrong" or "we were wrong" that they end up pushing their metaphors around like a kid trying to rearrange their vegetables on their plate to make it look like they ate some of them.

It's also smacks of the "No defects are obvious" comment in Hoare's Turing Award speech.