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#1 2015-10-09 04:24:49

Dixon Wragg
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From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

"mind-dumbing" for "mind-numbing"

There are lots of these online.

Great place to work, but work itself is mind-dumbing
review of a company

The 1960’s Ultimate mind dumbing event shown all over the world.
video caption

Camping is not mind-dumbing relaxation like television or aimless social media scrolling.
camping site

This is just mind dumbing and yet the courts keep ignoring it.
crime discussion

It doesn’t take a degree in accounting to realize that the profession can be utterly befuddling and mind-dumbing.
finance site

Seems like a perfectly good eggcorn to me.

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#2 2015-10-09 09:06:18

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2872

Re: "mind-dumbing" for "mind-numbing"

A good phonetic basis for this eggcorn. The “n-d-n” sequence is hard for English speakers. It easily goes to “n-d.”


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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