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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I’m having trouble deciding if this would be a malapropism or an eggcorn. A woman speaking at my church spoke of a person emulating a certain quality, goodness or something. But it was clear from the context that she meant to say emanating. She used emulate several times in her address to the congregation. The trouble is that it makes a strange sense, to say something like “we should emulate serenity” though one means that “we should emanate serenity.”
So, would it be an eggcorn or a malapropism?
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