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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Somehow it seems like this, or a very similar case, was recently discussed, but I can’t seem to find it.
Read first-hand accounts about local children who banned together against child labor so their voices would be heard.
She insisted that if enough resisters banned together against the draft, then the system would collapse and the United States would be quite unable to fight
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We have to ban together in order to affect change. It starts with one person and then it builds.
women often feel pressure to ban together in order to create income-generating activities to support themselves and their families.
We all, moderate Muslims included, need to ban together in order to succeed in this battle with the fundamental Islamists.
It’s a reanalysis, and it will depend on definitions whether it can be considered an eggcorn or not. It is likely driven by misanalysis from cases like the first listed above, where either band or banded might be expected, and band might be mistaken as a past tense. The ban cases might then arise by backformation.
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However they could easily arise independently, because of the difficulty of hearing the d before the following t of together . Even when a clear present tense is understood, one might still hear [ˈbæntəˈgeðɹ̩] when the speaker actually said [ˈbændtəˈgeðɹ̩] or [ˈbænÊ”təˈgeðɹ̩] and thus perceive “ban togetherâ€.
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Similarly (but without, or at least with much less probable, influence from a past tense analysis):
The bloods are ones who stan together against anyone who messes with oe of them
it is necessary for our cities to stan together against those private interests whose only thougt in connection …
Many of these usages of ban(ned) together share a notion of coming together in order to stop or prohibit (i.e. ban ?) something undesirable from happening. This is surprisingly common even when the collocation is banning together for something.
NOW YOU TELL ME WHAT IS THERE TO BAN TOGETHER FOR UNLESS IT’S A RALLY TO SAY ’ GOODBYE GEORGE’ YOUR NOT WELCOME BACK.
Let’s see how many Canadians and Americans we can ban together for a three-day period in April. DO NOT BUY ANY GASOLINE during those three days.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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It is hard to hear that ‘d’ and an alternative rehearing might be ‘bang together’ which could suggest acting in musical/percussive unison bringing us back to the another aspect of band?
They both have the same enemies and used to bang together against their rivals. They had infighting like the rest of the pinoy/chicano hoods, ...
www.streetgangs.com/billboard/viewtopic … 162&p=8783 –
17. you bang together against the ‘uncool person of the week’ to unite you so you won’t have to be alone. 18. you grab anything that comes, ...
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Set out for only their own personal gain, many of the colonists refused to bang together even in times of crisis. When the threat of Indians attacking arose …
https://niahd.wm.edu/txt.php?userid=bml … e=20070714 – 65k – Cached
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Nice!
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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If it was always presented as banned, then I’d wonder about confusion with past tense. The easiest way for people to form past tense when they are unsure how to do so, is to put an ‘ed’ on the end of a verb.
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