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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Just saw this one in an AFP story here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar … 2e9624.481
The quote: “They were said to be dehydrated and sun-burnt but otherside showed no obvious ill-effects from their seven weeks at sea.”
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Really common. Seems like an eggcorn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Otherways, othergates, otherhands … eggcorns, or parallel formations? They don’t sound that much alike, the way eggcorns should, though their overall meanings (in the usage we’re talking about) are about the same. (I’m sure I’ve run across these, and it seems another one I can’t think of, though I don’t have them well documented.)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2010-12-22 22:11:10)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I agree, David. Lack of sound similarity does count against it’s overall eggcorn score. Also, it doesn’t have the surprise/revelation/insight of a relatively new semantic perspective.
Last edited by kem (2010-12-23 15:49:38)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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