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#1 2010-02-21 23:05:19

palladio
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Registered: 2010-02-21
Posts: 3

humaniterrean

I encountered this interesting eggcorn in a Facebook profile:

http://www.facebook.com/mariabelize?ref=sgm

“I am a humaniterrean put on this Earth for a specific purpose. I love to network with other like-minded human beings. I love life and new experiences. I used to fear everything but don’t anymore. I’m ready to kick the obstacles out of my way. Look out world, here I come!!!!! My purpose is to take care of other human beings and the Earth to promote a future of peace and sustainability of the ecosystem.”

It certainly sounds like this individual has interpreted “humanitarian” in a new, wider way, representing a definitional shift to mean “a human being who cares deeply about the planet earth.”

Google shows 63 references for humaniterrean. Some are just misspellings, true, but in other cases it seems there is a shift to the new definition I’m suggesting above.

Last edited by palladio (2010-02-21 23:08:48)

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#2 2010-02-21 23:44:43

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2887

Re: humaniterrean

This would be a wonderful eggcorn. If it really were an eggcorn.

Google only displays a dozen hits for “humaniterrean.” Some of these are deliberate puns. Others won’t display the quoted pages. The two or three that might be possibilities are on pages with botched spellings. I’m inclined to think that the web has only intentional puns and misspellings for this word.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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