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Chris -- 2025-05-10
just read this in a student essay: “it was simply a fragment of his imagination….” sounds eggcornish to me…..and the word “figment” really is odd after all, and maybe this is the only expression that we normally see it in?
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I’m afraid it’s been spotted:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … ?pid=15925
I hate it when some smarta…. comes along and tells me that. It happens all the time!
Last edited by JuanTwoThree (2014-11-30 04:54:01)
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I think it was in Art Linkletter’s “Kids Say the Darndest Things†that the observation was made that Adam and Eve wore figments.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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