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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This came up, and may have been exemplified, in a post starting from December 2016 . ‘C.f.’ is of course a common mistake for ‘cf.’ (cf. Wiktionary. ad rem), but in most cases the usages suggest the perps are still thinking “compare” or something comparable.
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I couldn’t get Google to find what I wanted. (It insists on showing results for “cf.” when I tell it to search for “c.f.”, for instance.) Can the rest of you find cases where it seems to mean “comes from”?
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I rather like it that the subject of this email might be read as “comes from comes from comes from.”
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2017-08-04 07:51:04)
*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 can’t find any examples of this double mistake (thinking cf. is c. f. and thinking cf means “comes from” instead of “compare to”). But it seems a likely mistake.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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That December 2016 post on this forum seemed pretty clear to me.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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