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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“Emil Schult generally fulfilled the role of tour manager.” (from the Wikipedia entry on the group Kraftwerk).
Is this an eggcorn, or is it a correct usage of one accepted meaning of the word “fulfill”? I’ve previously heard that term as “filled the role”, not “fulfilled…”.
Dixon
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Seems pretty standard to me—fits the semantics of both fulfill and role. Half a Meg ghits, for what that’s worth. “fulfill the function(s)†works fine too.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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