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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This is extremely rare – in fact, all the examples below appear to be the work of a single writer who hangs out on a number of different political forums. David Tuggy has often said that an eggcorn has to be standard for someone – this reshaping clearly passes that test, at any rate.
“Infra†of course means something like “under, beneath,†so the near-parallel between “infrontstructure†and “infrastructure†is pretty neat. Examples:
Israel saying that if anything should arrise in the future
civilian infrontstructure will be attacked again (we all know Israel the piller of hope and glory for democarcy in the middle east doesnt go that low) the civilian infrontstructure attacked a few years ago were CGI.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread414329/pg1
one reason i would go for nationalize the main infrontstructure so its controlled by the tax payers and not by some greedy fat aristocat whos out to rip people off.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread376696/pg1
last time i checked all the women kids and so on killed were killed by Israels reckless attitude in the middle east where all their actions requires them to flatten entire cities and infrontstructure killing 10-30 times more people then that of a palistian or hazbullah
making them worse then any terrorist in the middle east.
http://www.abovepolitics.com/forum/view … rshift=yes
our Tax money paid for most of the infrontstructure in place
now, its out tax money that pays for most of it,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/mobile/bbc_news/h … 5454.shtml
as i recal that was after the IDF started shelling cuvilians in leboenen and destroying a lot of infrontstructure
http://www.abovepolitics.com/forum/thread222113/pg1
Edit 01/10/09: Well, the guy’s really consistent; here’s a new example:
Israel is known for targeting civilians and their infrontstructure, they say they target militants yet they kill more civilians then any attack on Israel does in a decade in one day.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread422435/pg22
Last edited by patschwieterman (2009-01-11 02:46:34)
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Yes, very neat! Wonder if this person is a native speaker of English, though. Sure makes a lot of other mistakes in his writing.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I can’t tell whether he’s a native speaker even though I’ve now read a lot of his writing.
So do you feel his status as NS or NNS affects eggcornicity?
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Not necessarily—depends on your definitions. NNS’s come up with all kinds of eggcorns that NS’s know better than to even think about. As a NNS of several languages, believe me, I know!
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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