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Thanks for your understanding.
Chris -- 2018-04-11
From a USA Today comment regarding Sotomayor’s nomination for US Supreme Court June 19,2009
“Really, you know about her intellectual ability, you must be a mine reader or something/”
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Again, what sense does it make?
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If it doesn’t make sense it isn’t an eggcorn.
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(The converse doesn’t necessarily follow: if it does make sense it may still be something other than an eggcorn.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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