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Chris -- 2018-04-11
It seems that “intertube”, “inter-tube”/inter tube are rather popular replacements for inner tube, especially it seems in reference to the so-called “Lazy River” family of amusement park water rides: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2 … y+river%22
This of course has a nice cross-over with the popular conception of the internet as a “series of tubes” (thank you Ted Stevens), intertubes being what the internets is made of.
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But innertubes are self-connected (circular), so unlike the intertubes of the internet? It’s an interesting one. I can’t get a clear image for inter-tubes: it sounds more like a hypercorrective malapropism than a prototypical eggcorn, to me. (The “inner for inter” malaprop is pretty common.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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