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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Interrubbing suggests social friction. Well, it also suggests social friskiness, but we won’t go there.
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I agree the pop ups just interrub you everytime you are busie loading somthing
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Hey people, I don’t want to interrub your “nice” discusions
fan fic
“What happened then?” Leo asked, interrubbing the story. {...}
“Excuess me,” interrubbed the hamster, tugging on my knee pad
Gulf spill conspiracy theory
Miss byrd was given a why to test for the red tide by the germans in 2005 but in 2006 i interrubbed their plan. In jan 2009 they started a test by dumping anthrax
Gamer
Sorry to interrubbed the conversation
See also bankrubbed.
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I’m a strict frictionist on economic issues. We maintain that the abrubbed bankrubbedcy of so many corrubbed corporations disrubbed the stock market..
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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This one sounds too bizarre for me. Could this be eye dialect? Lazy speech? Or simply intentionally cutesy word play?
“Bankrubbed” seems to have a bit more potential, but I’m still struggling to find credible imagery in any of these reshapings.
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