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Chris -- 2018-04-11
First spotted this while looking at the comments to a slashdot article. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl … d=24710783 Someone picks up on it in one of the replies.
Doing a google search brings back a decent amount of hits (1960). http://www.google.com/search?q=%22in+dangered%22
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Welcome, bronsoja.
This one makes sense to me as an eggcorn. If an animal has been designated as in danger, it has been “in dangered.”
Interestingly, on the forum bronsoja linked to above, there is some further discussion about “in dangered” and other eggcornish/ous terms, such as “another words.” (My favorite comment was the one about the ? tech support person who would write “you’re [sic] password is ‘v’ as in victor” in an e-mail or text message.)
Last edited by JonW719 (2008-08-22 16:46:21)
Feeling quite combobulated.
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This is interesting. http://books.google.com/books?id=j4MMAA … &ct=result
It has “indangered” split into “in-dangered” because it is on two lines. This allows google to pick it up for the query for “in dangered” . Was “indangered” a valid spelling at some point, or is this likely a typo?
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JonW719 wrote:
This one makes sense to me as an eggcorn. If an animal has been designated as in danger, it has been “in dangered.”
Alternatively(/actually?), the designation is a recognition that the animal has already been placed “in danger” by other factors.
(I think I’ll go mount the soapbox and rant on this one a bit.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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