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Chris -- 2018-04-11
‘Patently obvious’ – 176k ghits. ‘Patientlly obvious’- 200+ ghits. I think it means something like, ‘this is obvious and I’m explaining it patiently to you.’
I’m not a huge-athiesm fan, but it seems patiently obvious that atheists can both have ethics and feel trapped into hiding their non-mainstream faith.
wonderlandkat.livejournal.com/243924.html
Bertie wins confidence motion by 5 votes… I would have thought it is patiently obvious that it is not a solid majority.
www.politics.ie/viewtopic.php?t=26928
Immediate legal costs are obvious, immediate judgements are patiently obvious, loss of employees due to death or injury, loss of property or stock.
www.pib.com.au/riskmanagement2.html
It is patiently obvious that by lifting the ionosphere changes to the jet streams and other vital weather patterns will and do occur …
news.scotsman.com/scitech/Future-of-the-world-placed.3813781.jp
Musings on Self-Defense
Wait until they come through the door, making it patiently obvious that you had good reason to fear for your life.
www.chuckhawks.com/self_defense.htm
We all produced what food we had, and it was at once patiently obvious our supplies for 20 men and a girl were very inadequate.
www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/49/a8029749.shtml
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How do you keep coming up with these? You must hear more words in a day than I do in a month.
An outstanding eggcorn. Patently.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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The last ones seem more like the intended meaning is “if you wait patiently, it will become obvious” or “over time it became obvious”
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klakritz wrote:
‘Patently obvious’ – 176k ghits. ‘Patientlly obvious’- 200+ ghits. I think it means something like, ‘this is obvious and I’m explaining it patiently to you.’
shadowdrak wrote:
The last ones seem more like the intended meaning is “if you wait patiently, it will become obvious” or “over time it became obvious”
Another nice find, klakritz. I wonder, with kem, whether you have exquisitely tuned ears,
or a tremendous amount of input.
Some of klakritz’s examples – especially “Wait until they come through the door, making it patiently obvious” – seem to indicate shadowrak’s “slowly become obvious” reshaping. Others may reflect klakritz’s “explaining it patiently” reshaping. Could the large number of results come from multiple independent reshapings?
[Update: Oh, I guess it’s not a very large number. Still, there could be more than one reshaping.]
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