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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Look up both in google, one will bring up a legal concept dealing with intentions and premeditated murder. One will give the myspace page for a band with the (latter) eggcorn version.
This was one I originally heard in college. I was taking theoretical physics and one thing that you do in that subject is try to guess the form of a solution to a problem. Since my teacher was introducing us to the subject, he would naturally always choose the correct form of the solution. However, when one is really doing physics, you spend a great deal of time choosing the wrong form of a solution.
To key us in to the absurdity of always correctly choosing the form of the solution our teach would say “So, with malice of forethought we choose the correct solution <Z>”, with “malice of forethought” effectively meaning “with 20/20 hindsight”.
Reading the wikipedia explantion of “malice aforethought” i dont understand the definition of the term, but understand that the definitions are related.
Last edited by drxenocide (2010-08-25 00:13:17)
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Welcome to the forum, Dr. X. A choice eggcorn, also submitted by David Tuggy at the end of 2009, here. Good to have some firsthand confirmation.
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