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Chris -- 2018-04-11
You might enjoy the attitude-with-humor blog of a professional copyeditor who styles herself “Ray Gunn.†This summer she has joined an internet-based book club called “Infinite Summer.†Those in the group are (re)reading the late David Foster Wallace’s bloated postmodern epic Infinite Jest. More on the reading group is here.
In a recent post called “Jimmy Eggcorn and I Don’t Care,†Ray Gunn has listed some Joycean perversions of English expressions in the Wallace text. They are fun expressions, but I don’t see any examples that would survive the usual tests that we apply to candidate eggcorns.
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Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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