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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I see this all over the web. At first I thought it was a typo, but now it seems obvious to me that it’s an eggcorn on the “stupid” sense of the word “ass” – not too shabby for folk etymology.
” ‘You realize, Glenn, that when the Muslims take over here, two generations or so from now, that your gay community will be routinely suppressed and persecuted.’
This has to be of the most assinine statements made on this blog, since I’ve been visiting.”
—http://www.haloscan.com/comments/glenng … 338/#49018
(Sorry – don’t know how to format on this forum.)
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Welcome! Your formatting is fine, but if you’d like to do more, I’ve written a very minimal guide to formatting on the Forum here:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1008
—Pat
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