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Chris -- 2025-05-10
We already have ‘woeth me’ and ‘whoa is me’ but not this one, which looks different on the page but sounds fairly close to the original. Examples-.
Sermon January 16, 2005 : Galatians 2:20 | Congregación León de Judá
It says here that Baruk complains to God and he says; oh always me, because God has added all kinds of sadness to my pain …
leondejuda.org/en/node/4055
... If you’re thinking this is going to be another sad, sappy story about a person begging for attention with “oh always me” crap, ...
janeysjumbojourney.blogspot.com/
Oh Always ME!’ Kimberly cries. Myles throws the water on Kimberly’s face.
w1.1594.telia.com/~u159400710/BB/melissaworld.html
First he is too happy-go-lucky, then all emo-oh-always-me, then super-hero a go-go.
www.pojo.biz/board/showthread.php?p=18541951
Sorry to be such a whiny bitch and go blah, blah, blah oh always me, but I need to get this off my chest, badly. I’m just so worried …
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When I met him, I was a mopey, “Oh, always me”, types.
chat.vampirefreaks.com/u/user_comment.php?user…uid=2210769
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Very nice, surprising eggcorn. It works for me because it is typical for those in a self-pitying mood to feel like they are singled out for misfortune—it’s always me that gets clobbered— Whyn’t you pick on somebody else for a change?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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At first blush this reshaping seemed miraculous. But the more I think about it—and read the examples—the more credible it becomes.
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