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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I saw this on a FB page:
does anyone know what time people are supposed to arrive at the redwood convent church for the christmas closet?
I knew the local church mentioned is really called Redwood Covenant Church. A quick web search found this eggcorn going in both directions.
When sacrifices are mention in the bible there was always shedding of blood to pay atonement for sins or to establish a convent with God.
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... why would he send you another soul mate when you willing entered into a convent with God and your wife?
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This is because, it was believed by puritans that they had a convent with God for them to build a community that will act as a model to all other nations to copy from them.
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She flees Las Vegas, masquerading as a nun in a covenant, renamed Sister Mary Clarence, and shakes up the established order of the sisters’ lives, particularly enlivening their choral efforts.
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And when I say strict, I mean, stricter than a nun in a covenant, nahmsayin’?
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Originally, Agnes was a nun in a covenant near Vienna, who was greatly interested in the curative attributes of plant life.
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Being in a convent does imply some sort of covenant with one’s god—hence the meaning confusion.
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To add to our religious eggcorns.
I’m not sure the meaning overlap can be invoked in every cases. These seem to me like DNA eggcorns—the share a religious heritage that authorizes the exchange.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Something about conventional(ity) is probably going on in there too, though in the cloistrousness it’s hard to see.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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