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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A pure malaprop, I think, though it presents a vivid image nonetheless, of facing a difficult situation mutely, without being able to express your reaction.
Adolescent angst
Living in Georgia is the eternal pit of the preverbal Hell.
Astrology, I think
A place where you stumble, fall, get snatched up and tossed down, laced with arsenic ego for utter emotional destruction, troubled, snared, deceived distracted and transformed. It is your preverbal hell on earth.
Marketing
when your selling premium energy drinks, you need a tough name that will bite the bullet and not roll-over and play dead in the c-stores or end up in the preverbal dog house.
Preverbal proverbial roundtrip
Deepest financial anxieties
There are ways to take us back to look at these childhood proverbial memories.
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I’m not certain, but I think this might fall into the ESCULATOR category described on the Language Log:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language … 04805.html
(reproduced below)
4. Esculators. Among the other things that aren’t eggcorns are reanalyses motivated not by semantic considerations but by morphological (or morphophonological) considerations, reanalyses that I’ve treated in several earlier postings. Some representative examples:
nucular, perculate, esculate, simular, jubulant, nuptuals
doctorial, pastorial, pectorials, similiar
intravenious, mischievious, grievious, heinious
overature, aperature, fixature, mixature, strucature
masonary
fellatiate
cerviacal
dialate
longetivity
dimunition
incompacitated
To which I can add some morphological re-shapings involving -edly vs. -ably that have excited some discussion on ADS-L over the last few years:
supposably, assumably, reputably [-ably for -edly]
presumedly [-edly for -ably]
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I think you may be right. There are thousands of legit “preverbial”s out there, maybe preverbal is just a misspelling of a misspelling.
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