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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I’ve written a stage play and this line came to me:
We made sure you got all the votes. It was anomalous.
(from Three If By Air, by Stephen L Kirkpatrick)
I had decided it was a malaprop, but one with a surprisingly appropriate replacement. Then, today, I ran into this specious catalog of malaprops, called eggcorns. Or special category of malaprops. Sorry if that was a reach too far.
Please consider anomalous/unanimous in your forum.
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I’ve seen your interchange with Pat on the other thread, and I echo his welcome.
Anomalous for unanimous. Hmm. Definitely a funny slip. But to be an eggcorn, we would need to identify some semantic motivation for the switch. A Venn diagram of the meanings of these two words doesn’t overlap much.
Last edited by kem (2010-01-20 11:29:38)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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